Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

xii, 477, [3] pp. 8vo. Original grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Raymond Weaver, color frontispiece and lithographs in text by Miguel Covarrubias. 'This is a book that changed history. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans.' - Bauermeister