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Uncle Tom's Cabin...   Volcanoes in Hawaii...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin... Volcanoes in Hawaii...

Item # 691670 ·

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Aug. 13, 1852  The front page has a detailed ad headed: "Uncle Tom's Cabin--80,000 copies in 16 weeks! a sale unprecedented in the history of bookselling in America..." with more on it (see).
Also a small notice for: "Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is, being narratives, scenes, and Incidents of the real 'Life Among the Lowly', by W. L. G. Smith..."
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. 
In the U. S., Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible.
Page 3 has: "The Late Volcano Eruption at the Sandwich Islands, which is Hawaii.
Four pages, small indent at a blank margin, nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #371 - released for October, 2026

Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$39
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.