2 vols.
Harris, Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, The Folk-Lore of The Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton, 1881. 1st ed., 2nd issue. 12mo, orig. gilt & black stamped pictorial slate blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, spine ends frayed, corners bumped, other edge wear. Illus. by Frederick S. Church & James H. Moser. Frontis. + 7 plates, title vignette, text illus. With 8 pp. adverts. Butterfly patterned grey-olive endpapers. Minor dampstaining, mostly to adverts. & back endpapers, occasional stress to endpaper gutters. Former owner's ink signature & bookplate remnant on front blank recto. BAL 7100, state 2. Author's first book & the first Uncle Remus book. * Tales of The Home Folks in Peace and War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1898. 1st ed. 12mo, orig. gilt-lettered, black-stamped green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g.; moderate edge wear, slightly cocked. Frontis. + 3 plates. Front hinge stressed, front free endpaper separating. BAL 7141.