STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin. 2 volumes. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco over marbled boards, by V.A. Brown, spines ruled in gilt in compartments, lettering labels in 2, spines uniformly faded, light rubbing to extremities; endpapers toned, else contents quite clean. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852
first edition, mixed state, vol. 1 conforming to all first issue points, but meeting only first point (p. 74) in vol. 2. "The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin was greater than that of any book before or since" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 332). BAL 19343.
