Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 edition
kg:: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 edition [Famous Women][African American]
Both volumes are inscribed, “The Crawford’s/ Ithaca/ New York/ Presented in 1881 by Mrs. Ann Lewis, a colored friend, as her choice treasure.” With later pencil inscription, “Given to Mr & Mrs E.M. Newton by Mrs Crawford/ Setp 16 1924.” Boston: John P Jewett & Company, and Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. The first edition was issued in Boston by the same publisher earlier in the same year. Its immediate success is witnessed by an additon to the imprint above the publisher’s name”: “Seventieth Thousand.” Both volumes in original brown cloth binding with embossed image of a slavery scene, each in new brown cloth archival case. Spines have discreet archival repair at tops and bottoms.
A pivotal work, often cited as a book that helped change the course of human events. This is a fine and early set, with an interesting association.
K10996 $2,750
Upon meeting Harriet B. Stowe, Abraham Lincoln supposedly remarked “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” Stowe’s work did much to galvanize popular opinion against slavery. Stowe’s influence reached as far as Great Britain, where Uncle Tom’s Cabin and anti-slavery sentiment was a factor in preventing open English support of the Confederacy, despite England’s financial interest in supporting “King Cotton.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). American writer and abolitionist. Best known for "Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly"(1852). Thirty years after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe continued to write about one book per year.
Both volumes are inscribed, “The Crawford’s/ Ithaca/ New York/ Presented in 1881 by Mrs. Ann Lewis, a colored friend, as her choice treasure.” With later pencil inscription, “Given to Mr & Mrs E.M. Newton by Mrs Crawford/ Setp 16 1924.” Boston: John P Jewett & Company, and Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. The first edition was issued in Boston by the same publisher earlier in the same year. Its immediate success is witnessed by an additon to the imprint above the publisher’s name”: “Seventieth Thousand.” Both volumes in original brown cloth binding with embossed image of a slavery scene, each in new brown cloth archival case. Spines have discreet archival repair at tops and bottoms.
A pivotal work, often cited as a book that helped change the course of human events. This is a fine and early set, with an interesting association.
K10996 $2,750
Upon meeting Harriet B. Stowe, Abraham Lincoln supposedly remarked “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” Stowe’s work did much to galvanize popular opinion against slavery. Stowe’s influence reached as far as Great Britain, where Uncle Tom’s Cabin and anti-slavery sentiment was a factor in preventing open English support of the Confederacy, despite England’s financial interest in supporting “King Cotton.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). American writer and abolitionist. Best known for "Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly"(1852). Thirty years after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe continued to write about one book per year.