Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 261)
New York: The Modern Library, 1938. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good / Good. Item #2350071
First Modern Library edition, Toledano 261.1, binding/jacket style 8h with 334 titles on verso, $1.25 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Chips from jacket corners, jacket toned, light stain on rear board, front hinge just beginning to weaken, pages lightly toned.
xxiii, 552 pp. This is a book that changed history. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. -Bauermeister
Price: $35.00