STOWE HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Toms Cabin

Sale 2355 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 4,500

?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 full tan morocco gilt, spines gilt in 6 compartments, all edges gilt; original gilt-stamped front covers and spines bound in, gilt turn-ins, ownership inscription to first blank of vol. 1, evidence of removed bookplates to front pastedowns, 3 small institutional labels to front and end matter. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852

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first edition. Finely bound set retaining the brown covers and spines of the "B" binding. "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.