2 volumes, 8vo (191 x 114 mm). Title-page vignettes, 6 engravings. (Some spotting throughout.) Original brown cloth gilt (head and tail of spines chipped, rubbing, spines leaning). Provenance: Olive B. Libby (ownership signature). 

FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE in BAL binding B. Uncle Tom's Cabin was initially serialized in the abolitionist periodical The National Era beginning on July 5, 1851. The book is often credited with inflaming Northern sentiment against slavery and thus leading directly to the American Civil War. BAL 19343; Grolier 100, 61; 

[With:] STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Signed sentiment cut from letter, "Yours truly, HB Stowe" tipped in opposite title page of first volume.