The Life and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris
first edition
1918 · Boston
by Harris, Julia; Katherine H. Wootten
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ix, 620p. BAL 7169. light edgewear protected by a mylar cover. colored frontispiece of Joel Chandler Harris and 30 additional plates including several of African Americans about whom he wrote and various images of him throughout his life. Besides the Mark Twain letter regarding Huck which is here printed in context, he also corresponded with Twain and James Whitcomb Riley (thre is a picture of the two also in the book). (Inventory #: 016512)