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• Author/Creator:Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
  
• Uniform Title:[Uncle Tom's cabin]
  
• Title:Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  
• Edition:153,000 copies, - 306,000 volumes.
  
• Published/Created:Boston : John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852 (Cornhill [Boston] : Printed by Geo. C. Rand)
  
• Physical Description:166, [2] p. ; 25 cm.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Za St78 +852Bd
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN Za St78 +852Bd: Imperfect: original wrappers bound in but mostly torn away.
  
• Notes:"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine. Stereotyped by Hobart & Robbins, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, Boston"--T.p. verso.
  In double columns.
  Advertising matter on final [2] p.
  Issued in wrappers.
  "The great book! Uncle Tom's cabin. A sale unprecedented in the history of book-selling in America. On the 20th of March the first sale was made of this unparalleled book and already 300,000 volumes have been sold! ... Price, 2 volumes, in cloth, $1.50; cloth, full gilt, $2.00. Cheap edition for the millions, in one volume paper"--Advertising matter, p. [1].
  
• Variant and related titles:Life among the lowly
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Slavery--United States--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Publishers' advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston--1852.
  
• Also listed under:John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.)
  Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington.
  Hobart and Robbins.
  New England Type and Stereotype Foundry.
  Geo. C. Rand and Company.