Uncle Remus
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Typical light toning to spine; minor wear to boards; front free endpaper starting; minor toning. A lovely copy in very good cond
- Seller
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Addison, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Joel Chandler Harris. Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, illustrators. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition, third state.
Octavo. 231pp + 8pp ads. Illustrated with drawings by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, front cover in gilt and black, patterned endleaves.
Third state copy, with "presumptuous" for "presumptive" in last line of page 9, and full-page ad for this book at rear.
Typical light toning to spine; minor wear to boards; front free endpaper starting; minor toning. A lovely copy in very good condition.
.Synopsis
The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in the nineteenth-century South is portrayed as it appeared to Georgia-born Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus’s "Legends of the Old Plantation."
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- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 442
- Title
- Uncle Remus
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Book Condition
- Used - Typical light toning to spine; minor wear to boards; front free endpaper starting; minor toning. A lovely copy in very good cond
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Uncle Remus, AAVE, Folklore
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