A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe – 1853 | First Edition

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

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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.

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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