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Lot 94
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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$2,750
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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. (Page 23 with marginal chip on fore-margin just touching illustration and short closed tear, some minor staining and soiling.) Original publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt (touch of wear to extremities, front hinge tender). Provenance: C. K. Judson, Albany (bookseller’s stamp on front flyleaf); G. A. Whitaker (bookseller’s stamp on front free endpaper); Philip Greely Brown (bookplate); Dr. D. W. Houston (bookplate).
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 BRIGHT COPY.