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UNCLE REMUS: BEING LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION
by HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1937. Spine sunned to gray, lettered in gilt. Illustratedthroughout by Fritz Eichenberg. Small neat owner's signature on a front preliminary page. Some off-setting from leather turn-in to endpapers. Internally a clean copy. This edition was limited to 1100 copies. 135pp.. Limitede Edition. 3/4 Teal Morocco. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Fritz Eichenberg. Royal Octavo.
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
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015445
- Title
- UNCLE REMUS: BEING LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION
- Author
- HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
- Illustrator
- Fritz Eichenberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Limitede Edition
- Publisher
- The Peter Pauper Press
- Place of Publication
- Mount Vernon, New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- Royal Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children's Illustrated, Limited Edition
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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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....
- Morocco
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- New
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- Jacket
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