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UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS
by HARRIS, Joel Chandler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Clean, tight copy with just a touch of wear to the spine tips and bumped lower corners. Near Fine
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy with just a touch of wear to the spine tips and bumped lower corners. Near Fine. Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Decorated green cloth. BAL 7100: First State; GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 83. Illustrated with 8 plates and text engravings by Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Early owner signature dated 7 January 1881 on the front blank.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003135
- Title
- UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS
- Author
- HARRIS, Joel Chandler
- Illustrator
- Frederick S. Church and James Moser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Clean, tight copy with just a touch of wear to the spine tips and bumped lower corners. Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Joel Chandler Harris, High Spots, Slavery, Black Dialect, First Book, Frederick S. Church
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century American Literature; 19th Century Literature; High Spot;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
All books subject to prior sale. Payment with order; institutions may be billed. Postage additional: $11.00 for the first book, $6.00 each thereafter. Overseas postage billed at approximate cost. Pennsylvania residents must add 6% sales tax. Mastercard, Visa, and American Express accepted. We are also open to reasonable payment terms. A book may be returned within 7 days of receipt for any reason provided it is in the same condition as sent and prior notice is given. Please insure returns for their full value.
About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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