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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: New and Revised Edition with One Hundred and Twelve Illustrations by A. B. Frost.
by Harris, Joel Chandler
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xxiii, 265 pages. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrations by A. B. Frost. Red cloth hardcover with illustration and gilt title on front board and spine. Cloth is binding is shelf worn and faded. Front and rear hinges broken. Contents are shaken. Light toning to the text. A poor to fair copy only.
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
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27438
- Title
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Georgia author
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Americana Books ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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