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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. John P. Jewett Boston 1853, 1853.

Price: US$99.50 + shipping

Description: 262pp. 8vo Rebound in marbled boardsss and library tape back BAL 19359: 1st American edition, probable 2nd printing with "Damrell & Moore, Printers" on copyright page Boards rubbed, lacks ad page at rear. Page 262 is stuck to rear board. Binding loose Some browning of paper (as usual).

Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original. John P. Jewett and Co., Cleveland, OH, 1853.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements. 4 inches torn and unhinged at top of spine. 3 1/2 inches torn at bottom of spine. Bumped and worn corners. Foxed pages. Spotting and soil on covers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A KEY TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; PRESENTING THE ORIGINAL FACTS AND DOCUMENTS ON WHICH THE STORY IS FOUNDED TOGETHER WITH CORROBORATIVE STATEMENTS VERIFYING THE TRUTH OF THE WORK. John P. Jewett & Co, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo; 262 pages; G+; Brown cloth binding and boards with gilt lettering on spine; Head and tail edge of spine missing, bumping to corners, heavy rubbing to corners, wear to edges, discoloration on rear cover; Age toning to pages, heavy foxing to pages, writing in pen on front pastedown; Shelved Case 2. 1346287. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. John P. Jewett Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington / Low and Company, Boston / Cleveland / London, 1853.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 262 pages, and one leaf of ads at rear. Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins; Damrell & Moore, Printers. Double column format. Rebound in buckram, with gilt titles to spine, new endpapers. Small tape repair to title page. Contents clean and unmarked; binding sound. 10 x 6.5 inches.

Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada

Beecher-Stowe, Harriet:. Onkel Tom`s Hütte oder Sclaverei im Lande der Freiheit. 4 Bände in einem Band. Beigebunden: Thomas Clarkson, Onkel Tom in England, Fortsetzung von Onkel Tom`s Hütte, 2 Teile in einem Band 2. Auflage, Leipzig, Wigand, 1853, 110, 115 S.. Leipzig, Wigand,, 1853.

Price: US$125.85 + shipping

Description: XX, 109; 117; 141; 141 S. Einband berieben und bestoßen. Buchblock nach S. VI geöffnet, die ersten Seiten vorgefallen und mit Randeinrissen. Innen durchgehend etwas fleckig. Gutes Leseexemplar. "Onkel Toms Hütte (engl. Uncle Tom’s Cabin) ist ein 1852 veröffentlichter Roman von Harriet Beecher Stowe, der das Schicksal einer Reihe afroamerikanischer Sklaven und ihrer Eigentümer in den vierziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika schildert. Die Titelfigur Onkel Tom ist ein Sklave in Kentucky. Sein Herr Mr. Shelby behandelt ihn gut. Tom ist als Verwalter der Farm tätig. Er ist bekennender Christ und leitet regelmäßig die Gottesdienste der Sklaven. Als Tom jedoch aus Geldmangel verkauft werden muss, wird er von seiner Frau und seinen Kindern getrennt. Sein neuer Eigentümer Herr St. Claire ist ein gutmütiger, nachsichtiger Lebemann. St. Claires Tochter Eva entwickelt eine innige Freundschaft zu Tom, stirbt aber an Schwindsucht. St. Claire hat sich unter dem Einfluss seiner Cousine Ophelia, die ihm den Haushalt führt, zu einem Gegner der Sklavenhalterei entwickelt und will Tom freilassen. Sein plötzlicher gewaltsamer Tod durch einen Messerstich verhindert dies, und seine Witwe Marie denkt nicht daran, auf den Verkaufserlös zu verzichten. So gelangt Tom an Mr. Legree, der mit äußerster Brutalität eine Baumwollplantage betreibt. Als einziger Weißer wohnt er in einem heruntergekommenen Herrschaftshaus. Seinen Sklaven ist jede Menschlichkeit abhandengekommen. Es gelingt Mr. Legree, alle gegeneinander auszuspielen. Tom bekommt er nicht so weit. Tom soll zum Aufseher über die anderen Sklaven werden, weigert sich aber, jemanden zu schlagen. Stattdessen übt Tom durch seine praktizierte christliche Nächstenliebe einen positiven Einfluss auf alle aus, was Mr. Legree besonders zuwider ist. Er will Tom durch körperliche Züchtigung dazu zwingen, seinen christlichen Glauben aufzugeben. Doch Tom widersteht und verzeiht sterbend seinen Peinigern. Mr. Shelbys Sohn, George Shelby, versucht nach dem Tod seines Vaters vergeblich, das Tom gegebene Versprechen einzulösen, ihn zurückzukaufen, kann ihn aber nur begraben und versprechen, gut für seine Familie zu sorgen. Daraufhin lässt er seine Sklaven frei, um sie gegen Bezahlung in seinen Dienst zu nehmen. Parallel dazu wird die Geschichte der Sklavin Eliza, die aus dem gleichen Haushalt wie Tom stammt, ihres Mannes George Harris und ihres Sohnes Harry erzählt, denen mit Hilfe von Quäkern die Flucht nach Kanada gelingt. Dort treffen sie auf Georges Schwester und Elizas Mutter, die beide ebenfalls auf unterschiedlichen Wegen der Sklaverei entronnen sind, und gehen zunächst nach Frankreich, wo George studiert. Danach wandert die ganze Familie nach Liberia aus, um beim Aufbau des afrikanischen Staates, der als Zufluchtsstätte für ehemalige Sklaven gegründet wurde, zu helfen. Toms Hütte bleibt zurück als Mahnmal an die Zurückgebliebenen: „Folgt alle im Gedächtnis an ihn seinem Beispiel: Seid ehrlich, treu und christlich, wie er es war, und gedenkt eurer Freiheit jedesmal, wenn ihr Onkel Toms Hütte seht!" Im März 1851 schrieb Stowe an Gamaliel Bailey, den Herausgeber der Zeitschrift The National Era. Bailey schlug sie eine Art Fortsetzungsroman in Form von kurzen Geschichten vor, die das unglückliche Leben in der Sklaverei schildern sollten. In dieser Zeitschrift, einem Organ der Sklavereigegner, erschien der Roman ab dem 5. Juni 1851 unter dem Titel Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Getrieben von ihrem Glaubenseifer verfasste die Autorin jede Woche eine Fortsetzung. In der Ausgabe vom 1. April 1852 erschien die letzte Folge. Bailey honorierte die Verfasserin mit dreihundert Dollar. Bereits vor Abschluss dieses Romans hatte sich der Verleger John P. Jewett aus Boston für die Buchrechte interessiert. Am 20. März 1852 wurde der Roman noch vor den beiden letzten Fortsetzungen in einer Auflage von 5.000 Stück als Buch herausgegeben und war innerhalb von 48 Stunden vergriffen. Im selben Jahr erreichten die Verkaufszahlen in den Vereinigten Staaten 300.000 Stück, in England wurden eine Million Exemplare verkauft, außerdem entstanden deutsche, niederländische, flämische, französische, spanische, italienische und schwedische Übersetzungen. Die frühesten deutschen Ausgaben erschienen 1852 gleichzeitig in mehreren renommierten Verlagen. Das Werk erhielt dabei unterschiedliche Untertitel: Onkel Toms Hütte. Eine Negergeschichte (1852), Onkel Toms Hütte; oder Sklaverei im Lande der Freiheit (1852), Onkel Toms Hütte: oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven (1852). Onkel Tom`s Hütte; oder Negerleben in den Sklavenstaaten von Nordamerika (1853) Harriet Beecher Stowe benutzte als Quelle für ihren Roman die Memoiren von Pfarrer Josiah Henson, eines früheren US-amerikanischen Sklaven. Henson flüchtete 1830 nach Kanada und lebte dort seit 1841 in Dresden, Ontario. In den USA kam es zu einer Reihe von Bearbeitungen für das Theater, auf deren Stil Harriet Beecher Stowe keinen Einfluss nehmen konnte. Dennoch blieb die Bühnenfassung in den nächsten 80 Jahren eines der erfolgreichsten Stücke in der Geschichte des amerikanischen Theaters. Nach Schätzungen waren allein in den 1890er Jahren rund einhundert Ensembles mit dem Stück auf Tournee. 1853 veröffentlichte Beecher Stowe ein zweites Buch: A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Dort brachte sie Belege für ihre Darstellungen und reagierte auf ihre zahlreichen Kritiker, die nach dem Erscheinen von Onkel Toms Hütte auf den Plan traten. In den Jahren bis zum Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieges 1861 erscheinen allein 27 Romane, die sich mehr oder weniger als „Anti-Onkel-Tom-Romane" verstehen lassen. Der Abraham Lincoln zugeschriebene Satz, mit dem er Harriet Beecher Stowe während des Bürgerkrieges 1862 empfangen haben soll („So this is the little lady who started this big war.", übersetzt „Das ist also die kleine Dame, die diesen großen Krieg begonnen hat."), ist historisch nicht gesichert. Fest steht jedoch, dass Onkel

Seller: Göppinger Antiquariat, Göppingen, Germany

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Key. John P. Jewett, 1853.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand) published with A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. The "Key" section has the two pages of ads on the end. Binding is the brown cloth with the gilt lettering on the spine. Condition is VG- due to some light foxing. Also, the endpaper has a pencil date of 1858. [1303]

Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.. John P. Jewett & Co., 1853.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Original dark brown blindstamped cloth covered boards with dulled and rubbed gilt title to spine. Bubbling to cloth on front board; light soil; small losses at spine ends and corners, with board showing; 2" and 2 1/2" splits along joints. Foxing to text block. Binding sound, text unmarked. Interior lightly toned and foxed. Hobart & Robbins imprint to copyright page. Small hole to rfep. Double-sided page of ads at rear. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 262 pages

Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. John P. Jewett & Co, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$169.95 + shipping

Description: Tall Octavo. Imprint #2, [Hobart and Robbins; Damrell & Moore, printers, BAL 19359]. 262pp., (2)pp. ads at rear. Bound in brown cloth, the word "KRY" stamped in blind, spine gilt, pale yellow endpapers, previous owner's names, spine lettering gilt, wear through to corners, chip to cloth on spine affecting the author's name. covers stained or soiled. A good copy.

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher [1811-1896] Illustrated by Phiz, John Gilbert, and Matthew Urlwin Sears. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly [4]. Published Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, New Illustrated Edition . Edinburgh 1853., 1853.

Price: US$227.42 + shipping

Description: Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, rebacked with gilt title, author lettering and gilt line divided compartments to the spine with gilt tooling to each, elaborate gilt illustration covering the whole front cover with small gilt vignettes of H. B. Stowe, Eliza, George, Eva, and Topsy, all page edges gilt, yellow paper end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains [xii] 508 printed pages of text with frontispiece by John Gilbert, ornamental title page by Phiz, and 130 monochrome engravings on wood by Matthew Urlwin Sears. Just a little rubbing to the corners, without any foxing and a splendid illustrated edition in sound and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SLAVERY & TORTURE

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly. John P. Jewett And Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1853.

Price: US$228.00 + shipping

Description: Thin black printed paper front cover that is backed by orange paper, no rear cover. A 20th century piece of plain white paper is attached to front cover and wraps around spine to become rear cover. Front cover states 223,000 copies already published with a publication date of 1852. Title page also lists 223,000 copies but has a publication date of 1853. Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins Boston. Table of contents lists 45 chapters. 166 pages of text with no illustrations. No rear end papers, last page with old tape repairs, some intermittent foxing and staining, some dog ears to mostly the first 32 pages. PayPal accepted.

Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin. John P. Jewett, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 32 p. 10 pages with illustrations. Covers tattered and poor. Stains and fingerprints in interior, final page has a chipped margin. Pencil scribbles on final page and inside back cover. Final page is "Little Eva Song: Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel", words by John G. Whittier, music by Manuel Emilio. BAL p. 131, section III of Stowe. An adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, apparently for children.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.. John P. Jewett & Co., Boston, 1853.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Nicely bound in red calf with gilt detail to covers and spine; four raised bands. 1st issue with Hobart & Robbins on the copyright page. Marbled endpapers. Previous bookseller's label to front pastedown near gutter. Slight soiling to title page, but otherwise contains no previous owner's name or other markings. Pp. [ iv] 262 6.5 x 9.75 in

Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher), 1811-1896. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story Is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; London: Low & Co, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: iv, [1], 6-262p. plus 2 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements. Original brown cloth with "KEY" blindstamped on front cover. 25 cm. Color toned on front and back covers. Light yellow endpapers. Minor foxing, confined almost entirely to outer leaves (including the title-leaf). Text double-columned. An appealing copy of the probable second printing of the first American edition since the copyright page lists Damrell & Moore as well as Hobart & Robbins as printers.

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

STOWE, Harriet [Elizabeth] Beecher [1811-1896].. A Key To Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting The Original Facts And Documents Upon Which The Story Is Founded. Together With Corroborative Statements Verifying The Truth Of The Work.. Boston: Published By John P.Jewett & Co., Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington , 1853., 1853.

Price: US$555.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. pp. iv, 262, [2]ads. text in double columns. original cloth (cloth discoloured, extremities frayed, short tears to a few leaves with no loss, some foxing). First American Edition, Second Issue of the American abolitionist’s defence of the facts presented in her explosively controversial novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, particularly her representations of slavery. Sabin 92412.

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada

Harriett Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated Edition, Complete in One Volume. Original Designs by Billings; Engraved by Baker and Smith. John P. Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. Condition: VG. Rebound. One volume illustrated edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, published a year after the first edition. In excellent condition. Some rubbing to board edges and crown and foot of spine. Square and solid book. Internally very clean with no foxing. Comes with mylar cover.

Seller: EGR Books, Centreville, VA, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom?s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon which the Story is Founded. Together with corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.. John P. Jewett & Co., Boston, 1853.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Description: Edition : First edition., Rebacked expertly in ¼ calf, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered in two, original marbled boards., First issue with ?Hobart & Robbins? on copyright page. Bound with the Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science & Art, c.1844, Pp 10-180; the International Magazine of Literature, Art & Science, c.1851, Pp 290-432; The Anglo-American Magazine, c.1852, Pp 96; The North British Review, c.1850, Pp 152., Size : 8vo (7 x 9 ½ inches)., 262pp plus, appendix & index. A very good tight and clean copy.

Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated Edition, Complete in One Volume. John P. Jewett and Co, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$599.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Original gilt-titled cloth. One- volume illustrated edition published a year after the first edition. Spine ends frayed, points bumped and exposed, bottom edges exposed. Scattered foxing mostly to endpages, some small stains to pages, offsetting from a laid in marker. The binding just faintly loose. Lacks frontis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 560 pages

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded. John P. Jewett & Co, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$660.00 + shipping

Description: Second issue, with Damrell & Moore listed in imprint. Octavo (25.5cm). In brown publisher's cloth, blindstamped with "KEY" on both boards, titled in gold on spine (BAL binding C in brown AR cloth); yellow endpapers; 2pp of ads at rear; [i]-iv, [5]-262, [ii]pp. Ticket of "Burnton's Book, Music and Cheap Publication Store," New York, to front pastedown. A tight, straight copy, gently rubbed and spine lightly faded, with moderate foxing throughout: Very Good. BAL 19359.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which TheStory Is Founded.. John P. Jewett & Co.,, Boston:, 1853.

Price: US$825.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very good copy of Stowe's famous response to the devastating attacks upon her after publication of her blockbusting novel. The book contains cout records, letters and other material in support of her defense. This is a very good copy in the original publisher's blindstamped green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. The contents are remarkably clean with only some minor spotting and age toning. The binding shows some moderate rubbing, scuffing and shelf wear.

Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated Edition, Complete in One Volume. Original Designs by Billings; Engraved by Baker and Smith. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853, 1853.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: Thick 8vo (9" x 6.25"), original brown cloth, gilt title and ornament at spine, blind stamped covers. [5], 560 pp., numerous b&w illus. A very appealing one volume edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, published a year after the first edition. In an unusually nice state of preservation. CONDITION: Very good, small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, sound and clean.

Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. John P. Jewett, 1853.

Price: US$995.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine Copy In Full Leather First Illustrated Edition (1853) Excellent Fresh Copy Of This Classic.

Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. John P. Jewett, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Small 4to, original pictorial yellow wrappers, stitched, illustrated, 32 pp. Wrappers are a bit soiled, smudged and stained, pencil scribble and small chips to rear cover; last page torn, but not affecting text, early owner’s signature at the top of front cover. This is a first edition of the first children’s version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti- slavery classic. This edition contains eight full page wood-cut engravings, featuring illustrations of Topsy, Uncle Tom, Eva, and Simon Legree. The last page has Little Eva’s song.

Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. John P. Jewett & Co. Cleveland, Ohio, 1853.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tipped in, mounted to a larger piece of paper, is a slip of paper (5" x 1 1/4") SIGNED by H. B. Stowe (someone has penned the author's name underneath the signature). Original green cloth, with blindstamped borders and title on both front and reasr panels, and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. The cloth is rubbed, boards exposed at the corners, and the spine ends are frayed with short tears. The pages have some waviness (not from any moisture, but rather from the thin quality of paper used), and there is the occasional soiling. Even with the the wear to the cloth this is a near very good copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's defense against the attacks and criticism of her work, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among The Lowly; [offered with:] A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded : together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], Boston / Cleveland, Ohio, 1853.

Price: US$1365.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a First Edition of Stowe's rebuttal to the Southerners and other apologists who had attacked her portrait of enslavement. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Complete in two crown octavo volumes: 4,x,13-312; 322,[2],12pp, with title-page vignettes (repeating cover motif) and six full-page steel-engraved plates (three in each volume). Publisher's brown T cloth (BAL binding B, no known priority), upper cover decorated in blind with center vignette in gilt, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, lower cover repeating upper-cover design in blind, cream end papers. Inscribed in an elegant hand on both front fly leaves: "Mrs. Margaret Burnet / Elizabeth, N. J." An excellent set, light wear to spine tips and corners skillfully repaired, gilt undiminished, bindings tight (very slight spine slant), plates toned but pages generally fresh and bright. PMM 332. BAL 19343. Grolier American 61. Sabin 92457. Johnson, High Spots, p. 70. Key: BAL probable second printing, with imprint of both Hobart & Robbins, Stereotypers, and Damrell & Moore, Printers on copyright page. Royal 8vo (245 x 153mm): iv,5-262,[2]pp. Publisher's brown S cloth (BAL binding D, no known priority), covers paneled and lettered in blind, spine titled and decorated in guilt, text in double columns. An excellent example (light sporadic spotting), tightly bound and clean throughout. BAL 19359. Sabin 92412. By March 27, 1852, just one week after publication, the first printing of 5,000 copies had sold out, and the presses began running on a 24-hour schedule to meet the demand of an eager public. Before the year was finished, 300,000 copies had sold in the United States alone. "In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell . . . [its] social impact . . . on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since." (PMM). "No other American novel has been translated into so many foreign languages . . . Though she offered no practical solutions to the slavery problem, Mrs. Stowe, with her scenes from 'life among the lowly,' added the fuel of righteous anger to a fire already kindled." (Grolier American) As soon as Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, in installments in The National Era in 1851 and 1852, it was attacked. In response, she assembled voluminous printed evidence to support the characters and events in her novel and issued The Key (subtitled "Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work," organized by chapter and character as a "key" that unlocks the historical foundation of Stowe's fictional work and sets out to substantiate the veracity of her portrayal of slavery by laying out source materials, including eyewitness accounts. In addition, Stowe uses A Key to continue developing her Christian antislavery arguments, notably in Part IV. The Boston edition was issued in both cloth and printed paper wrappers. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly. John P. Jewett and Company, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$1450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Frontispiece, portrait of Eva, 560p. Leather. Fully decorated with gilt ruled boards with a design at the center and richly gilt spine. Pink decorated end papers and gilt foredge. Upper front and rear hinges cracked, but holding firm. Slight rubbing to the extremities. First illustrated edition with original designs by Hammatt Billings (1818-1874) and engraved by Baker and Smith. Even though the edition is dated 1853, it was apparently available already by December 1852. Contemporary ownership signature on the inside front leaf. Blanck#19527. A fresh clean copy.

Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. John P. Jewett and Company, Boston, 1853.

Price: US$1875.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Antique book with wear to the red leather cover, gilt decoration. Pages are loose, tanned with age. This is a book in need of restoration, but worth it. An early copy of this classic. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: A Different Chapter, Cairo, NY, U.S.A.