Sought-after book: Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. First edition, third state. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.75, 231 pages. Book condition: VG/None, with foxing to frontispiece, title page, and tissue guard. A desirable example of Joel Chandler Harris's first book, famed for its introduction of dialect literature.