STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life among the Lowly. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

2 volumes, 12mo (190 x 116 mm). Title-page vignettes, 6 engravings. (Some spotting and staining throughout, slight marginal creasing.) Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind [BAL Binding B, no priority] (rebacked preserving original spines and endpapers, slight rubbing and staining, some wear and repairs to extremities); folding case.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “spilt” for “spiled” in Vol.I, p.42, line 1; “cathecism” for “catechism” in Vol.II, p.74, line 5; and the single imprint of Hobart & Robbins on copyright pages, in BAL binding B. Uncle Tom's Cabin was initially serialized in the abolitionist periodical The National Era beginning on 5 July 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; PPM 332; Sabin 92457.

[With:] STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Signed sentiment cut from letter, "Respectfully Yours, HB Stowe" laid in (with some adhesive remnants verso from being tipped onto the front free endpaper of vol.I).