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[FINE BINDINGS AND SETS]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe... Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1896-1897.

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[FINE BINDINGS AND SETS]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe... Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1896-1897. 8vos. 16 volumes (with the later volume of Life and Letters, but lacking volume V, "The Minister's Wooing"). Uniformly bound in three-quarter green levant morocco over marbled boards, spines ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, marbled endleaves. LARGE PAPER EDITION, #236/250 COPIES SIGNED BY STOWE ON AN INSERTED LEAF, AND DATED BY HER ("Jany. 4th 1896" - dated about 7 months before her death).

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Spines sunned to brown, joints worn, some hinges starting, some wear, occasional soiling to boards, text generally toned. Good. 

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This set, although incomplete, contains her most important work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1851). This popular novel was so influential against the brutality of slavery, it is commonly thought to be one of the causes of the Civil War (it is also the only novel in Printing and the Mind of Man (#332, the other books in this exhibition were all non-fiction).

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