A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe – 1853 | First Edition
Stowe’s 1853 first edition documenting cases and sources linked to her novel, issued as a factual reply to public criticism of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1853 defense of her monumental book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe wrote a defense based on the radical responses she received from. While there was little doubt as to where Stowe stood on slavery, A Key provided Stowe an outlet to describe and push her own anti-slavery views.
Bibliographic Details
- Title: A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded
- Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Publisher: Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland, O.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; London: Low and Company
- Edition: First edition, 1853
- Format: (4to), single volume
- Binding: Brown cloth hardcover
- Size: 10 in x 6.5 in (25.5 cm x 16.5 cm)
- Collation: [iv], 5–262, [2] pp
- Illustrations:
- Contents Include:
- Full text of Stowe’s defense of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Condition:
Good. Original brown cloth binding with light staining and rubbing. Spine secure, hinges sound, text block intact. Pages complete with moderate wear to edges.
Why Collect This?
- First edition issued the same year as Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Published by the same house as her earlier novel
- Rarely found complete in original condition
Item Number: #29140
Categories
Americana, American History
Law & Government
Literature
Civil War
Authors
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Printing Date
19th Century
Language
English
Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Good
Collation
Complete