[AFRICAN AMERICANA - SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, Jewett Proctor & Worthington, 1852.  

2 volumes, 8vo. Title-page vignettes, 6 engravings. (Occasional spotting.) Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt-lettered (recased preserving original spines and endleaves, fading, spines slightly leaned); brown cloth slipcase. Provenance: Public Library of the Town of Beverly; Estate of Bessie Baker (bookplates with inscriptions dated 1934).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, in BAL's binding B [no priority]. Stowe's abolitionist novel credited with changing the attitudes of the American public towards slavery and Black Americans. BAL 19343; Grolier American  61.
 
[With:] Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. 2 volumes, 8vo. (Toning.) Original blindstamped black-brown cloth with spine gilt-lettered (minor wear at extremities, spines slightly leaned). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second printing of Volume I, first printing of volume II, BAL "A" binding [no priority].. Preceded by two English editions. Stowe's follow-up to Uncle Tom's Cabin, the novel focuses on southern enslavers and the mistreatment of the enslaved. BAL 19389.