Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. New and Revised Edition" near fine with no dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine anf front board. The spine is slightly sunned, with just a touch of wear to the cloth. The front board is bright and has an illustration of two buckets from a well with small animals inside. Owner's name on front endpaper; top edge of page block is gilt. With 112 illustrations by A. B. Frost; 265 pages plus six pages of publisher's ads. A tight, square, attractive copy.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017688
- Title
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1908
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About the Seller
Tulsa Books
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
About Tulsa Books
Internet only bookseller specializing in modern first editions, signed books, western americana, and general interest out of print books.
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
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