1852 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin, First Edition – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston and Cleveland, Ohio: John P. Jewett & Company and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 volumes, 8vo. Title page vignettes, 6 engravings. Original green cloth gilt, BAL Binding B. FIRST EDITION, “Eight-fifth thousand.” BAL 19343. Grolier American 61.

WITH Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Boston, etc: John P. Jewett & Co, 1853. 8vo. Original cloth.

First edition of Stowe’s seminal abolitionist novel widely credited with changing the American public’s attitude towards slavery and Black Americans.