Le Père Tom ou, Vie des Nègres en Amérique

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Émile de la Bédollière

$450 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Paris: Gustave Barba, 1853. Sm 8vo 7.125” x 4.75” , blind-stamped pebbled burgundy leather, four raised bands, five gilt compartments, title in 2nd, marbled endpapers. 234 pp. CONDITION: Very good, light wear to covers and extremities, corners rubbed. An 1853 printing of the first and best-known French translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s explosive hit, which received an important and glowing review

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