UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS: THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION
By Harris, Joel Chandler
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS: THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION with illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881, (1880). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with "presumptive" on last line of p. 9 and no mention of the work in the advertisements at the end). 12mo - 5-1/4" x 7-11/16". Original brown cloth covered boards with upper cover decorated in black and gilt (which remains bright and completely un-rubbed), lettered in gilt on spine, with just a tiny touch of wear at the extremities and a light bump to the top fore edge corner of the upper cover for what is an amazing copy of the book that would hold its own against any other copy out there. Butterfly patterned gray-green endpapers with a small library label from a previous owner affixed to front endpaper. 231, [9] pp. including 8 pp. publisher's catalog at end; [8] leaves of plates printed on one side only and not included in pagination. Frontispiece, title page vignette, the eight plates and numerous other illustrations within text illustrate the first book edition of the author's chronicle of African American tales and legends. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Housed in a collector's custom quarter brown morocco slipcase.
Published by: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1881
Vendor: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers
By Harris, Joel Chandler
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS: THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION with illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881, (1880). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with "presumptive" on last line of p. 9 and no mention of the work in the advertisements at the end). 12mo - 5-1/4" x 7-11/16". Original brown cloth covered boards with upper cover decorated in black and gilt (which remains bright and completely un-rubbed), lettered in gilt on spine, with just a tiny touch of wear at the extremities and a light bump to the top fore edge corner of the upper cover for what is an amazing copy of the book that would hold its own against any other copy out there. Butterfly patterned gray-green endpapers with a small library label from a previous owner affixed to front endpaper. 231, [9] pp. including 8 pp. publisher's catalog at end; [8] leaves of plates printed on one side only and not included in pagination. Frontispiece, title page vignette, the eight plates and numerous other illustrations within text illustrate the first book edition of the author's chronicle of African American tales and legends. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Housed in a collector's custom quarter brown morocco slipcase.
Published by: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1881
Vendor: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers
