Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (in Dustjacket)
by Joel Chandler Harris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible; Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1929. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A handsome copy of this early, 1929 re-issue, with the wonderful A.B. Frost-illustrated dustjacket and drawings thruout. Solid and VG in a bright, price-intact, VG- dustjacket, with light soiling to the panels and very light chipping and creasing along the panel edges. Thick 12mo, 265 pgs. "The original Uncle Remus Book --the only volume which contains the stories of the Tar Baby, How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail and other original Unlce Remus favorites"
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
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9653
- Title
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (in Dustjacket)
- Author
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- rare children's books, rare A.B. Frost, rare Joel Chandler Harris
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens; African-American;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...