Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Joel Chandler Harris. Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Spine,cover and edges shows wear. Few pages shows writing and light foxing.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898.
Price: US$18.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: B000H46TGS Some wear. ex-library: stickers, stamps. Great reading copy.
Seller: Blindpig Books, salt lake city, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hinges firm, 417 pages, b/w illustrations.
Seller: Ivan's Book Stall, Reading, United Kingdom
Harris, Joel Chandler. Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War. Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1898.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gilt and black decorated green cloth. Frontispiece with tissue guard, three illustrations. Spine slightly frayed at top and bottom edges, small wear spots to back boards and spine edges. Binding tight, cracked at third free page before advertisement for books by author. No loose pages. Boards and text clean. previous owner's name in blue ink at top of 4th free page. Slight lean, mild toning. Decorative front and gilt still bright. Black endpapers clean, very lightly rubbed in upper corner. Please contact us for pictures or more information.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Tales Of the Home Folks in Peace and War. Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan Hard cover, title in gilt with decorative motif on front. 1898 printing. From the Houghton Mifflin series of harris works. A very good copy, tight, clean and unmarked. Inner front hinge beginning to show but holding well. Corners rubbed. Previous owner small, neat bookplate. 122 year old book, but aging nicely. Shelf H
Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler.. Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War.. Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
Price: US$47.62 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: BAL 7141. Near Fine (bookplate front pastedown), with gilt decorated embossed boards, no dj. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. Hardcover. First edition. 417 pgs, (4) plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Seller: Midstate Media, Southington, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's advertisements precedes text. Title page engraved. Description: [4], 417 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm. Twelve stories about the poor and wealthy people of the South before, during, and after the Civil War. Publisher's green cloth over boards, gilt and black lettering and decoration to spine and front cover. Book Condition: Spine is toned, with lettering dull; spine ends frayed. Front cover is quite handsome. Title page is loose and rear interior joint cracked. Else Fine. Binding is quite sound.
Seller: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. Tales of Home Folks in Peace and War. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Tales of The Home Folks in Peace and War" by JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (author of "Uncle Remus"). 1898 1st edition, 1st printing; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Boston and New York. With a frontispiece and three other full-page illustrated plates. The book is a collection of 12 short stories of the American South in and around the time of the Civil War. Condition: Clean front cover with bright gilt lettering; there are a few tiny stain spots near the lower-outer corner of the back cover; the spine has bright gilt lettering and a few thin, light stain lines below the author's name. Tight binding. There is an insignificant crack at the rear hinge between the end paper and pastedown (despite the crack, the back cover is still firmly attached and is not at all shaky). The bibliography page at the front is attached, but has pulled from the spine 3/4 of the way down from the top. The text pages are in nice condition - mostly clean with only a small, light stain spot at the lower-outer corner of 99-103. Overall the book is in Good condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition Textblock very good binding very good, some wear, loose at front hinge, 417 pages illustrations by E. Boyd Smith nice, bright book
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (20cm). In green publisher's cloth, stamped in black and gold; blue coated endpapers; one-page ad at front; [x], 417pp; frontispiece and three halftone illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. A tight, sturdy copy, bumped on rear top edge and fore-edge, some wear at edges, else Very Good. Bookplate to front pastedown. BAL 7141.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1898. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding, decoratively stamped in black; titled in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text;417 pages. Frontis illustration and three others within by E. Boyd Smith. Light rubbing at the margins. In an archival plastic protector. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by E. Boyd Smith. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$167.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 417p. 4 illus. by E. Boyd Smith BAL
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.