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Lot 156
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$688
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Lot Description
HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848-1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.
8vo (190 x 125 mm). Frontispiece, 7 plates and in-text illustrations. Original publisher’s pictorial brown cloth gilt (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Fred Eledbody? (signature).
FIRST EDITION, third state, "presumtuous" in last line of p.9, and 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements with p. 233 devoted to reviews of Uncle Remus. BAL 7100; Penrod, pp.56-57.