UNCLE TOM'S CABIN - 1852 1ST EDITION

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 2 volume 1st Edition Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1852, 1852. 2 volumes, octavo. Spines lettered in gilt but mostly missing, front cover vignette stamped in gilt but mostly rubbed off, other decoration stamped in blind, cream endpapers. Spines faded as usual, a few marks to boards and occasionally internally, but an excellent unrestored copy in original condition. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. Early ink ownership inscriptions John Hurlburt ?? May 31, '52 in the inside front blank page of both volumes. First edition of probably the most socially influential American book ever published. "Even before the publication of the serial [in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era] the Boston publisher John P. Jewett had expressed an interest in publishing [it] in book form. The two volumes, issued both in brown cloth and paper wrappers, appeared on 20 March 1852, before the conclusion of the serial in The National Era. The first printing of five thousand copies was exhausted in a few days and a second printing of the same size, indicated by 'ten thousand' on the title-page, was completely disposed of by the end of March. The sale of the book was indeed phenomenal In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell read more

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