UNCLE REMUS - HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS - THE FOLK LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. Octavo, 231 pages, [8] ads; Poor; bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt and black tooling to front board; moderate wear and chipping to head and tail of spine, fading to spine; gutter partially visible on endpaper gutters; gutter fully open on pages 24/25, 48/49, 72/73, 96/97, 120/121; some gatherings loose or attached by a sole piece of string; frontispiece and all 7 plates present; Page 9, last line '...presumptive...', page [233]: 'New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine...'; BAL 7100; consignment; shelved case 2. 1305531. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1305531
- Title
- UNCLE REMUS - HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS - THE FOLK LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First State
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1881
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About the Seller
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Rockville, Maryland
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- BAL
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- Cloth
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...