1853 "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Item Details

An early edition of A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded. Together With Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work by Harriet Beecher Stowe. A response to accusations that Stowe had exaggerated the depiction of slavery in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this nonfiction book was published in 1853 by John P. Jewett & Co. of Boston. The book is a blue clothbound hardcover with blind-stamped front cover text reading simply ‘KEY’.

Condition

- apparent water damage; cap and tail damage; edge and corner wear; markings to cloth; cracked front hinge; stains and discoloration to pages; writing to front endpaper; some tears to pages.

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Item #

17LAX232-047