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, 1924. 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. Inner hinges intact. Light toning to the contents. Previous owner's inscription on the front paste down. A fair to good copy.
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 #
- 27951
- 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
- 1924
- Keywords
- Georgia author
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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