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Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
by Harris, Joel Chandler (1845-1908)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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231+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece, 6 other plates and diagrams. Small octavo ((7 3/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt rabbit pictorial to cover with black back ground drawing. Illustrations by Frederick S Church and James H Moser. First edition, first state with "presumptive" on last line page 9 and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine" (BAL 7100:1).
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.
Condition:
Corners bumped and slightly rubbed, small closed tear at bottom of title page else a very good copy to fine copy.
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.
Condition:
Corners bumped and slightly rubbed, small closed tear at bottom of title page else a very good copy to fine copy.
Extended Description and Notes
Slave folktales continue to be an important part of not only African American literature but also American literature in general. They were first written down in the late 19th century but became widely available only when journalist Joel Chandler Harris published Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-lore of the Old Plantation (1880). Harris's popular book both preserved a significant collection of oral tales—though, like so many narratives of that era, its use of dialect is painful to the modern reader—and introduced many Euro-Americans to the stories of a hitherto unknown culture.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler (1845-1908)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
- Pages
- 231+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece, 6 other plates and diagrams
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Literature;
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