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Aug 25, 2016 On Jon’s Desk: Uncle Tom’s Cabin — not just some backwoods book

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Title Page, U.S. First Edition, March 1852 Title Page, Early Great Britain Edition, May 1852 Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (United States) / Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America (Great Britain) Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe First Edition (U.S.) /...

Jul 26, 2016 On Jon’s Desk: A gift from Ed Firmage raises questions

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A gift from Ed Firmage (University of Utah Professor Emeritus) to the Rare Books Department raises intriguing questions. In the front of this well preserved copy of the Life of Brigham Young; or, Utah and Her Founders, published in 1876, is a calligraphic inscription wherein...