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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dred; A tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Sampson Low, Son and Co, 1856.
Price: US$11.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1856. Sampson Low, Son and Co. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, blue boards. Library binding, rebound, ex library, usual stamps and labels. 8x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dred; A tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Sampson Low,, 1856.
Price: US$12.57 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: hinge cracked through very worn 524pp
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Bound in contemporary cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Spine chipped. Markings to end pages. Some water damage. Sold with all faults. "Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred (1856), Stowe attempts to explore the issue of slavery from an African American perspective." - UNC Press
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Sampson Low, London, 1856.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faded green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, lower spine has one inch splits on front and rear hinge, bumped.Corners bumped. Yellow endpapers, edges uncut - binding is very good and internals sound and clean. A very good copy. rare
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.68 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original quarter leather over buckram boards with a gilt blocked leather label to the spine; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 524 pages. Subjects; Slave insurrections ; Fiction. Fugitive slaves ; Fiction. African Americans. Fugitive slaves. Slave insurrections. Slave insurrections ; Fiction. Fugitive slaves ; Fiction. African Americans ; Fiction. Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) ; Fiction. United States Dismal Swamp. Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original quarter leather over buckram boards with a gilt blocked leather label to the spine; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 524 pages. Subjects; Slave insurrections ; Fiction. Fugitive slaves ; Fiction. African Americans. Fugitive slaves. Slave insurrections. Slave insurrections ; Fiction. Fugitive slaves ; Fiction. African Americans ; Fiction. Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) ; Fiction. United States Dismal Swamp. Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.58 + shipping
Description: 8vo., contemporary half calf, raised bands and morocco labels to spine, marbled boards, endpapers and fore-edges. Text in two columns. viii+245 pp (including appendix). A very good tight copy with some scuffing to spine edges and corners. No stamps. [Presume edition 'Low's Cheap Series of Popular Books'.]. Includes 4 page preface written by Stowe in Russell Square, London 1856, pp 233-245 are Appendices. No advertisements nor publisher's lists.
Seller: Marijana Dworski Books, Presteigne, POWYS, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Bound in faded terra-cotta cloth with blindstamped borders and cartouche. Gold lettering on the spine. Binding good and tight although corners bumped and cloth at the front hinge (top inch) is beginning to wear through. Title page dated 1856. No date on the copyright page. 524 pages + 12 pages of Sampson, Low advertisements at the rear. This English edition contains a 4 page preface that was not included in the US edition. Stowe's follow-up to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dred was a success in terms of sales, but it is largely unread and overlooked at this point, because it did not have the sweeping cultural reverberations that the earlier book caused. This is a nice, first printing, first edition copy in original, unrestored condition. Ads at the rear are uncut. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that its an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: Pp. 524. Bound in contemporary 3/4 calf, lacks the front flyleaf, name on endpaper. BAL 19388. This also lacks the terminal advertisements. This is one of two English edition advertised as ready August 1, 1856. These English editions contain a preface, dated August 21, 1856, that was not in the American editions. Frst UK edition, preceeding the US edition by a few weeks.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 1/4 inches x 7 3/4 in., title-page with SLS device; preface dated London, August 21, 1856; contents; viii, 524 pp. + 12 pp. Sampson Low, Son & Co. catalogue. Red-brown cloth with titling gilt on the spine, blindstamped borders and designs on the covers, light yellow endpapers. The spine ends and cover corners, edges show wear, damp spots on outer covers; some page corners have been formerly turned down. Ink and pencil inscription on the front paste-down endpaper, ink stamped name on back of front free endpaper: H. W. Chaundy; embossed bookseller's stamp on the back free endpaper: J. & T. Cornish New & OLd Booksellers 33 Piccadilly Manchester.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$301.57 + shipping
Description: Two volumes bound in one, as issued. First English edition, variant of BAL 19388 binding C, our copy being a different size and binding. (precedes the U.S.) 8vo., orig. green TZ cloth with a blind stamped border and a circular blind stamp on the centre of the covers (BAL calls for rose cloth); yellow coated e/papers, spine lettered in gilt, pages measuring 6 11/16" X 4 1/8" (BAL calls for 7 7/16" X 4 15/16") (i)-viii, (1)-524, 12pp. Spine slightly cocked and a bit faded with light rubbing but certainly a very good copy. BAL 19388.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: viii, 524, 12pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brick red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed, marked, and sunned. Shelf-label of Dalton Hall Library and ticket of Lancaster-based bookseller T. Edmondson to FEP, blind-stamp and contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of title page. The first English edition, published in the same year as the first American edition, of Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) second novel and spiritual successor to her phenomenally successful anti-slavery narrative Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, 1852). In reaction to criticism levelled by abolitionists for the passive martyrdom of Uncle Tom, the eponymous Dred is a black revolutionary who advocates violent retribution against slaveholders. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom