first edition Hardcover
1862 · Boston
by STOWE, Harriet Beecher
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. 412, 16(ads)pp. Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, spine insignificantly lightened and a very tiny, faint stain on the front board, still a lovely and easily fine copy. A relatively uncommon book, Stowe's idealized "Italian" novel, which exhibited her new found tolerance for Catholicism. Fine copies are exceptionally scarce. (Inventory #: 87453)