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Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1852 Edition

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly
Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Description: 2 volumes. 312; 322 pp. (8vo) 7½x4¾, original brown cloth, gilt decoration on front covers, title in gilt on spines. First Edition, Early Printing. "Seventieth Thousand".In addition to being one of the most influential books ever written, Uncle Tom's Cabin was also one of the most popular; as Sabin notes, "During [1852] there were numerous reissues from the plates of the first edition, also in two volumes, with the addition of the words 'Tenth' to 'One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand."
Heading: Place Published: Boston
Publisher: John P. Jewett
Date Published: 1852