UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS
by HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER
Price: $2,250.00
- Bookseller: Aleph-Bet Books, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 30789
- Book condition: 2
- Illustrator: KEMBLE,E.W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Date published: 1900
Book Description
1900. 2. HARRIS,JOEL CHANDLER. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS. NY: D. Appleton 1881. 8vo, brown cloth stamped in gold and black, 231p. + [viii]p. ads, tiny pinhole in ep, owner name, sl. edge wear else VG+. 1st ed., 1st issue with "presumptive" mis-spelled on p. 9 bottom line and without ads for this title in rear. Illus. by Frederick Church and James Moser. Harris was the first American author to set out to chronicle American Black legends and stories. Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox have become American icons. This is a nice copy of this book. Peter Parley to Penrod p56, BAL 7100, Grolier, 100 Influential American Books prior to 1900 #83..
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