Description:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington, 1852. First edition, first issue, with imprint of Hobart & Robbins on the copyright page, with Stowe's clipped signature laid into volume one, two octavo volumes, bound in uniform decorated brown crushed morocco by Tallibart, ex libris Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878-1930) with his bookplate, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (2)
Estimate $1,500-2,000
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