Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. New York: Appleton, 1881.
8vo. Wood-engraved illustrations in text after Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser; 8pp. publisher's ads. (Occasional light marginal soiling and spotting.) Original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt (rebacked, preserving original spine and endpaper, fore-corners rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "presumptive" for "presumptuous" on p.9, and no mention of this title in ads at end, of Harris's popular retelling of African-American folk-tales and myths. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Johnson High Spots 36; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp.56-57.
This lot is located in Chicago.