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Item 59641Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Price: $400

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co, 1856. First edition, Second printing. Binding Aa. Read More Item Details for Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Add to Wish List

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Item 376408Ledger Containing: "Record of 1st Psychologic Seance"

(Stowe, Harriet Beecher).

Price: $1,000

[Shirley, MA: 1889]. An unusual and distinguished artifact of a 19th century seance attended by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, W. F. Cody, Mrs. Samuel Clemens, F. B. Carpenter, Steele MacKaye and others. Much of the ledger is unused, but page 33 has the following entry: "Record of 1st Psychologic Seance—..... Read More Item Details for Ledger Containing: "Record of 1st Psychologic Seance" Add to Wish List

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Item 368869Little Pussy Willow.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Price: $300

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1870. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Little Pussy Willow Add to Wish List

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Item 346905[Cabinet card studio portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, seated holding his hat].

(Beecher, Henry Ward).

Price: $200

circa 1880. Beecher was a Congregationalist clergyman and abolitionist, brother of the writer Harriett Beecher Stowe. See National Portrait Gallery NPG.85.110 for another image of Beecher from this sitting. Read More Item Details for [Cabinet card studio portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, seated holding his hat] Add to Wish List

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Item 346783Collection of photos of American Women Writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lucy Larcom, Sarah Jane Lippincott, Harriet...

[Stowe, Harriet Beecher].

Price: $3,000

c. 1870. Photos of prominent American woman writers. Very similar, and in come cases, the exact images were used for the well-known photo-collaged lithograph by Eugene L'Africain "Eminent Women" (1884), depicting authors, and a companion piece to his "Author's Group" (1883), which depicted famous Massachussetts authors. Included are Louisa May..... Read More Item Details for Collection of photos of American Women Writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lucy Larcom, Sarah Jane Lippincott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Add to Wish List

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Item 346576Autograph hymn and Autograph Note Signed, copying out Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane's hymn The Lost Sheep, beginning "There were ninety &...

Stowe, Harrier Beecher.

Price: $3,500

Np: nd. Stowe would quote the hymn in her Betty's Bright Idea (1875). In her note, to an unnamed correspondent, she writes: "I send this, which I copied before the hymn became a common one in reply to your application for an autograph. It is not mine. I wish it..... Read More Item Details for Autograph hymn and Autograph Note Signed, copying out Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane's hymn The Lost Sheep, beginning "There were ninety & nine that safely lay / In the shelter of the fold ..." Add to Wish List

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Item 324741Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Price: $15,000

Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first issue. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces..... Read More Item Details for Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly Add to Wish List

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