[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

[Charles Agvent]

Our catalogue of fine signed Presidential items has been delayed as we are in 
the process of acquiring several interesting pieces to add to it.  It will be 
posted on our website in two weeks.  Later this week or early next week we will 
be posting a short list including some exceptional items in the field of 
African-American history and literature.  Please check 
http://www.erols.com/agvent.  The following item is an example.

STOWE,  Harriet  Beecher. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR,  LIFE  AMONG  THE
LOWLY.  Boston  &  New  York: Houghton, Mifflin &  Company  1891.  New
Edition.  Reprint with a new introduction by Stowe,
first  issued  in 1879. Original green cloth with black stamping  on a
partial  gilt background on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece
engraving  of  a  scene from the novel. INSCRIBED and  SIGNED  by  the
author  on  the  front  blank: "And behold the  tears/of  such  as  an
oppressed/and  on the side of their/oppressors there was  power./Eccle
4.1/Harriet  Beecher  Stowe/Hartford  Aug 4. 1891."  Mild soiling and
aging.  Very Good with an excellent inscription.              $5000.00

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