Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
by Joel Chandler Harris
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
The Easton Press, Masterpieces of American Literature, Collector's Edition, 1981. Illustrated by Seong Moy. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Near Fine. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Minor shelf wear to lower edges. Appears new / unread.
Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spines. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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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- Bookseller
- Barbed Wire Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0165
- Title
- Uncle Remus
- Author
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Illustrator
- Seong Moy
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 158
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Easton Press;
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