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Lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias; issued simultaneously by the Limited Editions Club in a signed (by the artist) edition of 1,500 copies and as a special Christmas edition.

The first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in the spring of 1852. Prior to the book's release, the work was published in serialized installments in The National Era between June 5, 1851, and April 11, 1852. Stowe's influential anti-slavery novel was written here in Brunswick, much of it penned in the Bowdoin College campus office of her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, then Collins Professor of Natural and Revealed Religion. The book was an instant phenomenon-twelve different editions of the work appeared in the first year alone, and it was adapted for dramatization almost immediately. Translations appeared in over thirty-seven languages by 1879, and the title has never gone out of print. Although the first edition was illustrated only modestly, subsequent versions have included illustrations in widely differing styles by Billings, Cruickshank, Kemble, Eckman, et al. For this edition, publisher George Macy selected Miguel Covarrubias, who was a caricaturist for Mexican newspapers before working for Vanity Fair; his modernist style contrasts pleasingly with Stowe's classic text.

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