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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton , 1899. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. A.B. Frost. Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine. Record # 508827
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
- Browsing Is Arousing
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 508827
- Title
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Illustrator
- A.B. Frost
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Childrens Fiction, Illustrated, A.B. Frost, .
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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