[Rarebooks] FS: Signed UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 1896

[Charles Agvent]

STOWE,  Harriet  Beecher. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR,  LIFE  AMONG  THE
LOWLY.  Volume I of THE WRITINGS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.  Cambridge:
Riverside    Press  1896.  First  Edition.   The  first  volume   of a
sixteen-volume  set containing the first half of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, in
publisher's  gray  cloth with a paper spine label. BAL 19508. This  is
from  the  Large-Paper Edition and is copy #163 of only 250 SIGNED  by
the  author  and  dated  5  January 1896 on a  leaf  inserted  by  the
publisher.  The  elderly  and rather feeble-minded  Stowe  signed  and
dated  the sheets for this edition between 4 January and 12 June  1896
(she  died  on  1  July 1896), making this one  of  the  first  signed
sheets.  Her writing is very neat, and it's likely she labored to sign
each  sheet as her hand was quite shaky late in her life.  Illustrated
with  a  frontispiece  engraved portrait of the author.  Bookplate  of
Frank  Watson  Hastings,  designed by M. F. Hackley in  1909,  on  the
front pastedown. Light soiling. Very Good or better.          $1500.00

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