Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Tale of Life Among the Lowly; or, Pictures of Slavery in the United States of America by Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher - 1852

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1920. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo (12 x 17cm). No date Circa 1920. 531 pages, followed by publisher's adverts. This copy still has its attractive period dust jacket with colour on-lay to the front panel mounted within ruled borders, good with some general wear and rubbing, somewhat chipped and scuffed to edges, (not price-clipped), repair to reverse of rear joint with archival tape, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, a little reading wear. An attractive copy with its original dust jacket. Part of the Nelson;s Classics series.

London: James Bowden, 1898. Book. Illus. by Copeland, Charles. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. pp vii 490, b/w frontispiece, other b/w plates throughout. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board and spnie, vert good with just a little general wear, some rubbing to extremities and joints. Contents clean and tight, one neat pencil inscription. A very good copy of this rare edition with photogravure plates..

London: Thomas Nelson, 1852 Tissue-guarded frontispiece; Extra engraved title-page; Published the same year as the First Edition in America; 2 page Preface (unsigned), dated "Edinburgh 21st September 1852"; Hardback: light brown cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, yellow laid end-papers; Well-used copy, cover wear especially round spine, hinges tender, previous owner's name to front free end-paper.

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1852 First Gall & Inglis edition. (Preface also dated 1852). Hardcover book . Publisher's red cloth with blind-stamped decorations, gilt title and decorations to spine, all edges gilt. vi, 282pp. With engraved frontispiece and title page, and 2 engravings in plates (all b&w). Preface uncredited. Very Good. Covers generally clean, a few light marks lower spine end frayed. Pages largely very clean, light foxing and browning to prelims and endpapers. Pictures available.

Street & Smith. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1890. Hard Cover. (I355) Circa 1890 .

London: C. H. Clarke and Co, 1852. Newly Illustrated Third English Edition from 1852, year of the First American and British Editions. Full Morocco leather. Very Fine/None. 8vo, full black morocco with gold title on spine, five hubs, a single gilt ruled border & gilt inner dentelles; engraved frontispiece (displaced from p.124) and engraved title page [perhaps after Cruikshank] with sundry tissue guards, plus 40 mostly original steel-cut illustrations [likely from various contemporary sources or original], marbled endpapers, a.e.g., xii, 355 pages. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) melodramatic historical novel of 1852 informed and inflamed the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.<br/><br/>Uncle Tom's Cabin was initially serialized; then published in book form by John P Jewett and Company, Boston, on March 20, 1852, with engraved cover and six… Read More