Lot 663
[Stowe, Harriet Beecher] 1st Edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or Life Among the Lowly". First-edition copy of Stowe's most famous book, printed by John P. Jewett & Company, Boston, in two volumes bound together, 7½ x 5 in., with original hardbound covers with marbled pastedown, 1852. Volume one has 312 pages and Volume two has 322 pages. This was the 25,000th copy produced of the book. It has the signed name of the original owner, "Prescott", neatly written on the flyleaf of the cover. There is normal wear to the cover and the interior has slight age toning and some foxing. "Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly," was first published as a serial in an antislavery paper during 1851-52. Stowe's influence was enormous and the book became an important factor in solidifying sentiment in the North against slavery. Stowe declares in the preface: "The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away with the good effects of all that can be attempted by them, by their best friends, under it" (p. VI).
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500.
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