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STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1853.
Tall 8vo. (Some spotting). Original brown cloth blindstamped with the word “KEY” on both covers within blind frame, gilt-lettered spine (spine darkened, extremities sunned, rubbing at ends and corners). Provenance: Joseph L. Eisendrath Jr. (“The Lincoln Library of…” bookplate); George H. Thomas (early ownership signature).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with “Hobart & Robins” imprint on copyright. “The success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin made Stowe an international celebrity and a focus of antislavery sentiment. In 1853 she published A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an antislavery polemic written to answer critics who complained that her novel had exaggerated the brutalities of slavery” (ANB). BAL 19359.