Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths And Legends Of The Old Plantation
by Joel Chandler Harris
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, nd. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Frederick S. Church. Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title. Record # 378494
Synopsis
For more than a hundred years, the tales of Joel Chandler Harris have entertained and influenced both readers and writers. Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Harris's most popular narratives, featuring African American trickster tales, etiological myths, Sea Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the distinct voices of four slave storytellers, indispensable tales like "The Moon in the Mill-Pond" and other Brer Rabbit stories have inspired writers from Mark Twain to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helped revolutionize modern children's literature and folktale collecting.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 378494
- Title
- Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths And Legends Of The Old Plantation
- Author
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Illustrator
- Frederick S. Church
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- nd
- Keywords
- Children's Illustrated, Illustrated, Frederick S. Church, .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Illustrated;
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- Reprint
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- ND
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- Cracked
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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