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Harris,Joel Chandler.. Uncle Remus and his Legends of the Old Plantation.. David Bogue., 1881.
Price: US$96.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Assumed 1st ed. Green pictorial boards. xvi,192pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue dated 1879. Illus tissue guarded illustrations by F.Church & J.Moser. Not a book which would be likely to see the light of day today but very popular of its time. The hinges are a little strained. The top corner of the ffep has been clipped by approx 2" x 2". There is also a little chipping along the outer edge of both ep's. There is also occasional tanning but generally a very clean copy for its age. The boards have some light rubbing & the corners are sl. bumped but overall a very respectable copy.
Seller: Robert F Butterworth, Lytham St.Annes, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$164.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, David Bogue, 1881. In-8, XVIII+192pp.+32pp. Plein cartonnage décoré de l'éditeur. Frontispice et 3 planches hors texte, illustrations dans le texte. Cartonnage un peu défraichie, quelques rousseurs, ex-libris. Bon exemplaire.
Seller: Rometti Vincent, Nice, France
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xviii, 192 pp. plus 32-p. pub. cat. With Illustrations by F. Church and J. Moser. 12mo, publisher's illustrated cloth. First UK edition. BAL 7101 (not seen); a partial reprint of the 1881 American edition. Front free endpaper lacking; a few inoffensive spots to text; cloth rubbed at extremities; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation. David Bogue, London, 1881.
Price: US$332.88 + shipping
Description: First UK edition of Joel Chandler Harris's anthology of African American fables and oral traditions. First UK edition of this collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris for children. Many of these stories are didactic, and want to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. The stories are written in a dialect which was his interpretation of Deep South African-American language of the time, for which he has endured some controversy since its publication.With illustrations by F. Church and J. Moser, numerous in text as well as a frontispiece and three full page plates. Collated, complete.With thirty-two leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, front joint starting, boards holding firm, boards slightly marked. Endpapers loose but present. Previous owner's gift inscription to half title, dated 1881. Binding split to p. 128. Pages generally clean throughout. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-2 half title leaf] [i-iii] iv-xvi [xvii] xviii [1] 2-192 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated 1881 inserted at rear, four inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, original pictorial bevel-edged gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in black, gray endpapers, all edges stained yellow. First British edition. The author's first book and the first of his Uncle Remus books. Grolier Club, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900 83. Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-7. BAL 7101 (not seen). Later gift inscription on the recto of the frontispiece. Spine lean, cloth worn at edges, some soiling to cloth, inner hinges cracked, still a sound, good copy of a very scarce book. (#172138)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.08 + shipping
Description: First English edition, 8vo, xviii, 192, 32 advertisement pp. 3 plates plus illustrations in the text, marginal dampstaining to the lower part of each plate, slight loss to the edges of the free endpapers. Original gilt and black decorated cloth, recently recased with repairs to the spine ends, some rubbing.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus and his Legends of the Old Plantation. London, 1881.
Price: US$633.74 + shipping
Description: (London: David Bogue 1881). First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [ii], xviii, 192. + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1880 inserted at the rear. Illustrations by F. Church and J. Moser. Publisher's original pictorial bevel-edged gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in black, grey end-papers, all edges stained yellow. 4 inserted plates (tissue guards present). A VG++ copy. No inscriptions. Firm hinges (no cracking). Bright and clean boards (with none of the usual soiling so often seen). Gilt lettering bright and NOT dulled. Some toning to both sets of end-papers. A bookseller's ticket to the rear paste-down. A tiny bit of rubbing to the spine tips. The author's first book and the first of his Uncle Remus books. A most attractive copy and much brighter than normally seen of this uncommon first edition with the first issue June 1880 adverts to the rear. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$640.15 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [ii], xviii, 192, 32 (adverts). Illustrations by F. Church and J. Moser. Original pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. On the front pastedown is the 1887 bookplate of the historian and Pepysian scholar Joseph Robson Tanner, with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper and on the verso of the endpaper is the bookplate of the poet and publisher Felix Dennis. Cloth just a little rubbed at head and tail of spine. Minor crack at inner front hinge. Very good bright copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$915.41 + shipping
Description: Half title, front. & illus. by F. Church and J. Moser, 32pp cata. (1881). Orig. drab olive cloth, bevelled boards dec. in black & gilt, lemon edges; sl. rubbing. v.g. Including tales of Mr Rabbit and his old adversary Mr Fox.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1117.96 + shipping
Description: First English edition of Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings. 8vo., blue grey cloth dec. in black and gilt, xviii, 192, 32pp. ads. Lacking front free endpaper, some rubbing to spine ends, still a near fine copy. BAL 7101. BAL states "a partial reprint of Uncle Remus, [New York: Appleton] 1881".
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada