Sunny memories of foreign lands
by STOWE, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1854. In two volumes. xii, 326, 11, [1]; viii, 242pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous illustrations in the text, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue to Vol. I. Partially unopened in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned, top edge dust-soiled. Later book-labels of 'Teddesley' to both FEPs, very occasional marginal chipping. The first English edition of novelist and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811- 1896) epistolary travelogue recording her extended tour of England and Scotland and mainland Europe. Stowe had already secured celebrity and commercial success as a result of the publication of her immensely successful anti-slavery narrative Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston, 1852), nonetheless, during her travels, which are largely described in letters to her children, she expresses continual surprise at the enthusiastic reception she received. She met many eminent statesmen and writers, including Macaulay, Gladstone, Mrs. Gaskell, and Thackeray, and attended several anti-slavery meetings. . First English edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ31200
- Title
- Sunny memories of foreign lands
- Author
- STOWE, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First English edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Son, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1854
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Travel
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Chipping
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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