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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03969.01 Author/Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Book signed Date: 1852 Pagination: 2 v. Height: 20 cm, Width: 13.5 cm Order a Copy

First edition inscribed. Original cloth. Inscribed by Stowe on the fly-leaf of volume 1 "Presented to [Jno?] Fleece by his friend and admirer Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1854." Boston, John P. Jewett & company; Cleveland, Ohio, Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. The identity of the inscribee is unknown.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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