Featured in this lot we have a New Edition printing of, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe,1885. This copy was published in 1885 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge located in Boston and New York. Originally published by John P. Jewett & Co., when financial disaster loomed large for Jewett, Beecher reached out to Ticknor and Fields requesting they buy the stereotype plates at an assets auction. Because Ticknor and Fields was equated with quality literature, Stowe became part of the prestigious list which included Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Emerson, among others. An anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly" had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the US and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the US Civil War. The book shows good condition overall with some wear across the cover and spine due to age and use with intact pages have age tanning. The book measures 7 3/4" tall by 5 1/4" wide and 1 1/4" thick.