May 2020 Catalogue

G r e a t G i f t s 64 With An Autograph Note Signed By Harriet Beecher Stowe 60. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston and Cleveland, 1852. Two volumes. Octavo, mid 20th-century full crushed red morocco gilt. $9200. Click for More Info First edition, first issue, of Stowe’s classic and vastly influential novel, with title vignettes and six wood-engravings, handsomely bound by Macdonald. With a signed autograph note tipped into Volume I reading: “Trust in the Lord and do good faith & works. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nov 3d, 1893.” “Within a decade after its publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin had become the most popular novel ever written by an American… there is substantial evidence that the book precipitated the American Civil War” (Downs, Books That Changed America , 108). Without final blank of Volume II. BAL 19343. Stowe’s autograph note features a variant of an admonition she was known to copy out and sign. A fine copy, desirable with autograph material from Stowe. “The longest way must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”