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Auction archive: Lot number 228

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Lif...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,188
Auction archive: Lot number 228

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Lif...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,188
Beschreibung:

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly . Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly . Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 volumes, 8 o. Title-page vignettes and six engraved plates. (Some occasional pale spotting.) Original brownish cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spines gilt-lettered (chipped at spine ends, some staining to covers, some overall wear). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (BAL binding B, no priority) of Stowe's passionate anti-slavery novel. "The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since" ( PMM 332). BAL 19343; Grolier American 61; Grolier English 183.

Auction archive: Lot number 228
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jun 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
12 June 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly . Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly . Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 volumes, 8 o. Title-page vignettes and six engraved plates. (Some occasional pale spotting.) Original brownish cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spines gilt-lettered (chipped at spine ends, some staining to covers, some overall wear). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (BAL binding B, no priority) of Stowe's passionate anti-slavery novel. "The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since" ( PMM 332). BAL 19343; Grolier American 61; Grolier English 183.

Auction archive: Lot number 228
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jun 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
12 June 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
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