Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Lot #381
Joel Chandler Harris: Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (First Edition)

This lot has closed

Estimate: $1500+
Sell a Similar Item?
Refer Collections and Get Paid
Share:  

Description

Unsigned first edition book: Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris. First edition, first printing (with “presumptive” for “presumptuous” in last line on page 9, and with no mention of this book in ads at back). NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Hardcover bound in gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth, 5.25 x 7.75, 231 pages. Book condition: VG+/None, with minor edgewear, extremely faint offsetting/annotations to title page, and a tiny edge tear to the title page. A highly desirable first state example of Joel Chandler Harris's first book, famed for its introduction of dialect literature.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autograph and Artifacts
  • Dates: #674 - Ended September 13, 2023