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Lot 396
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston and Cambridge: Houghton, Osgood and Company, the Riverside Press, 1879.
8vo. Title printed in red and black, illustrated. Publisher's half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (some light wear to extremities, lower hinge cracked, upper hinge starting); cloth folding case.
"New edition," PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STOWE: ""Very truly yours H. B. Stowe Bay View House Aug. 16 1879." Bay View House was Harriet Beecher Stowe's Miami, Florida winter home. This 1879 new edition of Stowe's work includes the first appearance of her 31-page introduction in which she describes writing the book. [Laid in:] A stereo view card showing the Florida "Residence of Mrs. H. B. Stowe." On verso: "Florida Views." Woot & Bickle, Photographers. Jacksonville, Fla.
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota