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Signed book: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Later printing. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889. Hardcover bound in green cloth stamped in black with pictorial decorations, 5.25 x 7.75, 500 pages. Signed and inscribed on a free end page in ink, "Edward W. Seymour, from his friend Harriet Beecher Stowe, June 27, 1890, 'He shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor, & him that hath no Helper.'" Autographic condition: fine, with some trivial staining to the signed page. Book condition: VG-/None, with a cracked front hinge, light rubbing and soiling to boards, and creasing to spine ends.
The recipient, Edward W. Seymour (1832–1892), was a Connecticut politician and state supreme court justice from Litchfield, Connecticut, Stowe's home town. Notably, the quote that Stowe pens here—from Psalm 72:12—is one of three Biblical quotes that closes the preface to this edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (seen on page "v"). A superb presentation copy of Stowe's influential anti-slavery novel.
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