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Lot 93
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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$1,500 -
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$3,000
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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. Frontispiece, 7 plates and numerous illustrations in text. (Some very slight marginal toning.) Original publisher's pictorial powder blue cloth gilt (minor rubbing to extremities, text block cracked with a quire sprung). Provenance: Arthur Swann (bookplate, catalogue slip laid in).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "presumptive" on page 9, and no mention of this title in ads at end. Harris's popular retelling of African-American folk-tales and myths. BAL 7100; Grolier American 83; Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-57. A FINE COPY, IN AN UNCOMMON VARIANT CLOTH COLOR.