UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (VOLUME I ONLY)
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Lexington, Kentucky
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About This Item
John P. Jewett & Company, Boston. Very Good-. 1851. Hardcover. 312 pp; Volume 1. Prev lib copy with gilt spine stamp and book plate inside front cover. Leather half bound. Shelf wear on edges, some cracking/small chips along spine, scuffing along edges and corners. Normal age toning, paper clean and hinges tight, occasional scattered faint foxing, darkened foreedges. Back end papers have darkened corner edges from contact with leather. Overall very tight copy. .
Synopsis
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century) and influential, it’s publication in 1852 was instrumental in bringing visibility to the cruel reality of slavery. In more recent years, it has come under considerable criticism for its portrayal of meekness and subservience and the phrase “Uncle Tom” is sometimes used as an epithet for someone seen as overly subservient.
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On Mar 31 2020, a reader said:
Excellent book to gain empathy and insight into the enslaved pathos, struggle and plight! This book presents well designed ideas to ennoble and elivate the human race as brothers, and sisters of a common God, and Father of us all.
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Details
- book dealer
- Glover's Bookery, ABAA, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 400028
- Title
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (VOLUME I ONLY)
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand - Very Good-
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John P. Jewett & Company, Boston
- Date Published
- 1851
- Keywords
- Fiction, American History
- Size
- 7.90 X 5.20 X 1.10 inches.
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Lexington, Kentucky
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About Glover's Bookery, ABAA, LLC
Glover's Bookery, ABAA has been buying and selling used and rare books since 1978. We have a large bookstore in Lexington, KY open to the public on Tues. to Sat. from 12pm - 5pm eastern. When traveling on I-75 or I-64
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