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Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Very Good Fair
- Seller
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El Paso, Texas, United States
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About This Item
1911. Hardcover. Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Very Good Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The binding is tight and the pages are clean and binding tight. Illustrated. The back cover of the dust jacket is missing. The back insert of the jacket exist along with the front cover. The whole jacket has been taped with clear tape back together.
Synopsis
For more than a hundred years, the tales of Joel Chandler Harris have entertained and influenced both readers and writers. Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Harris's most popular narratives, featuring African American trickster tales, etiological myths, Sea Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the distinct voices of four slave storytellers, indispensable tales like "The Moon in the Mill-Pond" and other Brer Rabbit stories have inspired writers from Mark Twain to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helped revolutionize modern children's literature and folktale collecting.
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- The Sun Also Rises
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005300
- Title
- Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Very Good Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...