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1881. [a handsome copy] The FolkLore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, first printing, of Joel Chandler Harris's first and most beloved book, featuring Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear (with occasional appearances by Brer Terrapin). In addition to 34 such "Legends of the Old Plantation" (including "The Tar-Baby"), the volume includes "Plantation Proverbs" plus Uncle Remus's "Songs" and "Sayings." At the time he wrote these, Harris (who was white) was on the staff of the Atlanta Constitution -- in which newspaper the tales had first begun appearing in 1879. Uncle Remus is both typical and strongly individual, and his tales, based on native legends, are told with a simple humor and authentic dialect that is in perfect harmony with the thing said and the way of saying it" [OCAL]. Some of Harris's tales are today…
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UNCLE REMUS. His Songs and Sayings
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; or, Life among the Lowly
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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1852. London: H.G. Bohn, 1852. Endpaper ads printed in blue. Original blind-stamped olive-green cloth. Very early English Edition, which is (per the spine gilt) "illustrated by Leech, Gilbert &c" and was priced at "3/6" -- possibly the first UK illustrated edition in book form. Bohn issued a presumably-earlier-in-1852 unillustrated edition, plus this one with nine plates including the frontispiece. This is the first edition to include an eight-page "Introductory Remarks" addressed "To Henry G. Bohn Esq." -- by James Sherman, who notes that Bohn's unillustrated edition had consisted of 5,000 copies that sold out in one day. Sherman (1796-1862), an English Congregationalist minister, includes a chart showing how many slaves are owned by ministers of each denomination (but not his own), led by (in order) Methodists, Baptists, Campbellites, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians. Jewett's two-volume American edition (with this same sub-title "Life Among the Lowly") came out in late March 1852, and due to its…
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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1852. [the first English edition] Reprinted verbatim from the tenth American edition. London: Clarke and Co., 1852. Original blind-stamped grey-green cloth with gilt vignettes on the front cover and spine. First English Edition, which includes a four-page Preface "introducing this good book to British readers" -- signed simply by "G". Jewett's two-volume American edition (with the different sub-title "Life Among the Lowly") came out in late March 1852, and due to its instant success, many printings ("editions") were run off over the following weeks. Blanck (BAL) states that this unillustrated "Clarke and Co." edition, "reprinted verbatim from the tenth American edition," was "the earliest English edition identified by BAL" -- published on either April 30th or May 1st, and with a copy deposited at the British Museum (now Library) on July 12th. (BAL does also note that the earliest Clarke ads for this book cited "300 pages," not the actual 329 pages: if there was an earlier Clarke state, no one has…
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UNDER WESTERN EYES. A Novel
by Conrad, Joseph
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1911. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Original dark blue cloth. First American Edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Harper declined to handle the serialization "because their magazine circulated in Russia and they feared it would cause a breach in their good relations with that country" [Cagle]. This copy is in dark blue cloth, which is the only color mentioned by Cagle or Supino; however, we have also seen this book bound in a much brighter blue cloth. Although half of this edition's 4,000 copies sold in the first year, the rest sold slowly through 1917: we would surmise that the cloth color variance was due to copies being bound up over so many years. This is a near-fine copy (scarcely any wear, but as usual the spine lettering is a bit dulled). Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c.
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