signed first edition Hardcover
1859 · London
by STOWE, Harriet Beecher
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. First English illustrated edition with illustrations by Phiz, book issue (also issued in parts), and with a one-page Preface by Stowe not present in the American edition. Coated brown endpapers. Contemporary (likely publisher's) half brown leather with marbled paper covered boards and red morocco spine label gilt. Corner and boards rubbed, a sound near very good copy. A look at New England life in the 18th Century. English novelist John Fowles' copy with his signature dated in 1963. *BAL* 19406 (noting what is likely this binding).
(Inventory #: 597177)
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