HARRIS, Joel Chandler.
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-lore of the Old Plantation.
New York: D. Appleton and Company , 1881.
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First Edition of Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
First edition, first printing of the first collection of “Uncle Remus” tales. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, the front panel stamped in gilt and black with a vignette of a rabbit, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, title page vignette, illustrated throughout. First issue points with "presumptive" in the last line of page 9 and no advertisements at the rear. In very good condition with rubbing and a closed tear to the crown of the spine. Housed in a green cloth slipcase.
While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris “invented Uncle Remus… He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Eventually, seven more Uncle Remus volumes followed. The stories Harris had heard originally were never meant to be told for the benefit of a white child; rather they were an integral part of the slave culture out of which they grew. Nevertheless, Harris made an important contribution by carefully and accurately preserving these stories” (Silvey, 296).
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-lore of the Old Plantation.
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