Truth Stranger Than Fiction; Father Henson's Story of His Own Life.
Boston: John Jewett, 1858. Introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. xii, 212pp. 12mo, original blind stamped brown cloth (spine ends repaired and with a small chip at foot; lacks front fly leaf, a few signatures are uneven but still firmly sewn. Boston: John Jewett, 1858. First Edition. Very good. Henson's life provided the inspiration for the character in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. This is the expanded version of Henson's memoir, first published in 1849. Henson worked..... More