Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin. 2 volumes. Illustrated with title vignettes and 6 plates. 8vo, later 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, by P. B. Sanford, slight rubbing to joints and lower corners, mild shelfwear to boards; scattered foxing, heavier to vol. 2. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852
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first edition. First printing with single imprint of Hobart & Robbins, conforms to all BAL textual points but for page 92, line 12, vol. 2, reading "spear." "The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin was greater than that of any book before or since" (PMM 332). BAL 19343; Grolier American 61.