Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings: The Folklore of the Old Plantation
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1881. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 231 pages plus ads in rear. Illustrated in b&w by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and black (bright gilt drawing of rabbit with pipe on front). First printing with no mention of this title among 8 pages of publisher's ads in back and the word presumptive in the last line on page 9. Endpapers feature a light gray butterfly pattern. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, clean copy. Record # 404102
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
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 404102
- Title
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings: The Folklore of the Old Plantation
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- Fiction Short Stories, shortStories, , .
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