AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS BOOK.
A Dissertation on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Uncle Tom Shows. Pp. 38(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 3 plates, title page vignette; black cloth spine with printed paper title label, brown batik-style papered boards; fore and bottom edges uncut; blind patterned tissue paper dust wrapper, edges slightly chipped and split; privately printed for the friends of May and Harry Foster at The Torch Press, Christmas, 1947. First edition, limitation unspecified. *Thomas Henry Foster (1875-1951) was the President of John Morrell and Company, a meatpacking firm in Iowa. An avid book and autograph collector, his large library included numerous editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin and related Stowiana. Item #117881
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