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Lot 263
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Nov 12, 2020
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STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) -- HENSON, Josiah (1789-1883). Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Henry P. Jewett, 1858.
8vo. Portrait frontispiece. (Spotting to preliminary leaves.) Original publisher's brown cloth gilt (slightly leaned, minor chipping to extremities).
FIRST EDITION of Henson's autobiography, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, of the work widely believed to have inspired Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sabin 31433.
Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, Kentucky