La Cabaña del Tio Tomas

Mexico: Imprenta de Andres Boix, 1853. About good.. Two volumes. 365,[1]; 287,[1]pp. A married set. Quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. First volume heavily foxed and dampstained; binding rubbed, corners worn; contemporary ink stamps on first page and final blanks; title page detached. Second volume binding rubbed, corners of front board heavily worn; text block moderately foxed. First Mexican edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- one of two published in 1853, for which no priority has been established. This edition was published in two volumes, while the other, printed by Vicente Segura Arguelles, was published in a single volume -- an example of the global enthusiasm for the work after it was first released. Scarce in either form, with fewer than ten copies of the two volume edition located in OCLC. A decent copy of this important rarity. (Inventory #: 5505)