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Uncle Remus
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. Book. Illus. by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble, illustrators. Very Good+. Hardcover. Gift Edition.. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. Gift Edition. Very Good+/no dust jacket . A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble, illustrators. First printing of the Gift Edition, with (1) on last page. Signed Decorated American Trade Binding (monogram DD on cover - Decorative Designers). Clean green ribbed cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine (faint spot of soiling to spine). Slight surface wear to spine corners, no fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Charming previous owner inscription dated Christmas 1926 on front free endpaper. With an Introduction by Thomas Nelson Page. All pages are decorated with a beatuiful elaborate border. One page (page 85/86) has been roughly opened and has a 4" diagonal tear. Illustrations throughout by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble. 265 pages. Size approx. 7-1/2" x 10"..
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
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029759
- Title
- Uncle Remus
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Illustrator
- A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble, illustrators
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- Gift Edition.
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- UNCLE REMUS GIFT EDITION, JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, FIRST PRINTING, A. B. FROST, E. W. KEMBLE, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB, SOUTHERN PLANTATION CULTURE, DECORATIVE DESIGNERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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