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HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton, 1881.
12o (190 x 128 mm). 8-page publisher's advertisement at end. Frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by Frederick Church and James Moser. Original green pictorial cloth, covers blocked in gilt and black, gilt lettered on spine (some darkening, slight rubbing, some light wear at ends of spine); green cloth chemise. Provenance: George Clinton Fairchild Williams (bookplate); Richard Manney (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1991, lot 164).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, with the last line on p.9 containing the word "presumptive" and without mention of the present work in the advertisements. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Johnson High Spots 36; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.56-57.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, with the last line on p.9 containing the word "presumptive" and without mention of the present work in the advertisements. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Johnson High Spots 36; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.56-57.