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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 231 pages, [8] page ads. In Good condition. Full binding of green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Moderate shelfwear. Chipping and tearing to cloth along spine and edges. Rubbing to front and rear covers. Water damage present through front free endpaper to page 14. Age-toning and finger-staining to textblock. Front and rear boards starting to detach from gutter. Bookplate on front pastedown. Shelved in Case 2. BAL 7100. Page 9, last line '.presumptuous.', page [233]: 'New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine.'. 1371074. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$336.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60109693: 1881. In-12. Relié. Etat passable, 2ème plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 231 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en page de titre (portrait). Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. reliure d'éditeur bleue à illustration dorée sur le 1er plat. Dos très abîmé. Couverture se détachant. Manques au dos des plats. Cahiers détachés. Pages de garde manquantes. Page de titre abîmée. Texte bien lisible. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The folk-lore of the old plantation. With illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 231 pages + 8 more pages of advertisements of other book titles. Pink and white patterned endpapers. Blue cloth, black design on front; gilt design on front and gilt titles on spine. Corners bumped. Book is loose, pages are clean and white. Front cover is sharp in colour, spine slightly rubbed. Previous owner's name on blank page after ffep. Good.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. D Appleton, New York, 1881.
Price: US$349.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth with bright gold Brer Rabbit to front cover and gold title to spine. "Presumptuous" on p9 , but no mention in rear ads indicate not first state , but early reprint of author's first book. Unmarked copy with wear to spine ends
Seller: roschobell, lilburn, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Shelfwear, rubbing to edges of covers w/small tears and corners lightly bumped, some light soiling and several moisture spots, interior hinges starting to crack, page 23 has several tiny tears and some tiny chips along edges, page 203 has 1/2" tear to fore-edge, pages mildly toning, very tiny burn spot to top corners of last dozen pages, a couple pencilled numbers inside front and rear covers; brown pictorial covers w/gilt rabbit in a garden, gilt lettering on spine, pink butterfly design endpapers; 8 plates; POINTS: the word "presumptuous" on page 9, and the ad at end of text for this book; 231 pages
Seller: Books of Paradise, Magalia, CA, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS:HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS;. D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1881.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: third state, author's first book. "presumptuous" on page 9 corrected from "presumptive". original mustard pictorial cloth with beautiful black and gilt illustration of "brer rabbit" bright, no tissue guard on frontispiece. crnrs and spine ends fraying, spine cloth splitting at back. book body and covers intact. decorative wht and pink butterfly end-papers, uncracked. owner's name and "may 1881" in ink on flyleaf. covers somewhat aged. slight bumping to bottomfront edge. heavily illustrated throughout in blk and wht.
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 231 pages, [8] ads; Poor; bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt and black tooling to front board; moderate wear and chipping to head and tail of spine, fading to spine; gutter partially visible on endpaper gutters; gutter fully open on pages 24/25, 48/49, 72/73, 96/97, 120/121; some gatherings loose or attached by a sole piece of string; frontispiece and all 7 plates present; Page 9, last line '.presumptive.', page [233]: 'New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine.'; BAL 7100; consignment; shelved case 2. 1305531. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition hardback book . 231 pages plus 8 pages of advertisements at rear . No mention of this title among book ads . Presumptive appears on page 9 . Page 73 detached but laid in and present . 1st edition , 1st state . Butterfly patterened blue-grey endpapers . Reddish colored covers with gilt decorative illustrations . Light fraying to head and toe of spine with a lightening discoloration . Front and back hinges are starting .
Seller: Barbers Book Store Online, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 231 [8, ads] pp. With illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 12mo, publisher's brown cloth decorated in gold and black. First edition; with "presumptuous" on p. 9 (second state or printing). BAL 7100. A bright attractive copy with very slight use at extremities. The front hinge is cracking, with a small loss of paper along about three inches.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS;. D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1881.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth covered boards with black design and gold rabbit decorating front cover, corners bumped. Old insect damage (very light) to covers and spine. Gold titles on spine, very light fraying to head and tail. Book body clean and illustrated, butterfly design on free end papers.
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: first edition, 2nd state synopsiss of this ttile first of 8 page advertisements in rear of book, illustrated by Church and James H. Moser, beautifully decorated and with bright gold leaf rabbit on front, gilt lettering on spine, frayed corners and spine, cracked, pages browned. author's first book, with 'presumptuous' on the last line of p.9 and REAR OF BOOK HAS FULL PAGE ADVERTISING UNCLE REMUS. DATE PUBLISHED: 1881 EDITION: FIRST ED 231
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt and black decorated green cloth. Interior very slightly browning, two signatures loosening, small tear in one page margin not affecting the text.Pencilled and dated contemporary name on prelim.Rear inner-hinge separating but holding well. Spine extremities and corners a bit worn, but only normally so. A few very minor spots to covers.Brer Rabbitt relaxed and smoking his rabbit-tobacco pipe reclines in gilt splendor on the front cover.A nice copy of this great American classic.231 pages plus 8 pages of ads in rear.
Seller: From Away Books & Antiques, Greenville, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Incredibly scarce unbound first edition-10 gatherings kept in cloth covered clamshell presentation box. Each gathering is numbered 1-10. Second state of first edition with "presumptuous" printed on page 9 and no mention of the title in advertisements in rear. Display box is lightly worn with a bit of fraying around corners and short superficial tear in lower spine corner. Pages are sparsely foxed and have minor edge wear from age/thumbing. Frontispiece has separated from title.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings. Appleton, New York, 1881.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1881. First Edition. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton, 1881. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial slate grey blue cloth, butterfly patterned blue-grey endpapers. .First edition, second state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book by Harris, the one American writer of the Reconstruction who "has made the most permanent contribution," with eight plates and numerous text illustrations by Church and Moser, in original bright gilt cloth."Harris' main concern in setting [the stories] down was to preserve the remnants of a folklore which he was sufficiently farseeing to know would one day perish from the earth unless someone who understood the racial psychology and social philosophy behind it acted as amanuensis to its surviving narrators" (Twenty-three Books, Winterich, 102). "Of all the American writers of [the Reconstruction] period, Joel Chandler Harris has made the most permanent contribution" (Braithwaite, in The New Negro, 32). "It will live as long as Aesop's fables" (John Bigelow) second state , with corrected "presumptive" in the last line of page 9 and mention of Uncle Remus in the publisher's advertisements. BAL notes four cloth variants and three endpaper variants,
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.25 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Front., vignette title & illus. by F. Church and J. Moser, 8pp ads; p.23/24 carefully repaired along inner edge and with sl. wear in outer margins. Later half black morocco, marbled boards; orig. green cloth from front board & spine strip bound in at end. t.e.g. v.g. Copac lists three copies only at BL, NLS, and Oxford. The first issue, with 'presumptive' on page nine.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER.. Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881, 1881.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; BAL third state (printing?). Publisher's green cloth; spine ends a little mended, else a very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing, first issue with uncorrected error on page nine. 231, (8, ads) pp. Hardcover, bound in tan cloth. The spine ends and corners worn with minor loss; some small stains on the binding. Lacks front fly leaf; a few small blemishes.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. hardback with no dust jacket GD/--, no names or marks, clean cream pages, front and back hinges are cracked, title page is detached and present, stitching of the binding is starting to break throughout. Brown pictorial cloth boards with Brer Rabbit stamped in bright gilt on front, bright gilt spine titles, pretty green butterfly and flower endpapers. Has "presumptive" bottom of page 9, advert for A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine on page 233. Ignore abe's shipping estimate as I will charge shipping at cost - Australia Post rates.
Seller: Helen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks, Cape Douglas, SA, Australia
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 231, [8] pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth, gilt, embossed design, upper hinge giving, else good. (33201). Illustrated by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Presumptive instead of presumptious page 9.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Green cloth stamped with gilt rabbit on front and black cover gilt titled spine, white butterfly patterned endpapers. (iv), 231, (1), (8 in ads) pages. Illustrated by Frederick S. Church and James Henry Moser. First edition, second state. (BAL 7100. Grolier Childrens 100 #45. Grolier American 100 #83. Peter Parley to Penrod p.56), with "presumptuous" on page 9, but the ads starting with "New Books. A Treatiste on the Practice of Medicine." Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Minor shelfwear to the boards. A very bright copy. Internally fine, and scarce in this condition. (BAL ascribes no order of precedence to the several colours of cloth used in binding the first edition.) With numerous illustrations throughout, including many full page. Printed by D. Appleton and Company. A classic of American childrens literature with a complicated legacy. Joel Chandler Harris, a white Southern journalist, collected these folktales from enslaved and formerly enslaved African Americans on Georgia plantations. Serialized in newspapers across the country, they proved hugely popular, and this first collection published by Appleton in 1881 was bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. The books were responsible for compounding racist stereotypes and disseminating them across generations of readers, as well as popularizing a false and rosy picture of the antebellum South. At the same time, Harris was the first folklorist to make a serious effort to preserve the Southern black oral traditions and his books have proved an important resource for ethnologists and contemporary African American writers seeking to reconstruct and reclaim traditional folktales. The adventures of Brer Rabbit, the Tar Baby, Brer Fox etc. On the Grolier Club List of "100 Influential American Books," on the Newton List of "100 Good Novels," and one of Merle Johnson's "High Spots of American Literature." Green cloth stamped with gilt rabbit on front and black cover gilt titled spine, white butterfly patterned endpapers
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very attractive example of the 1881 First Edition. First state of Page 9 and no adverts for Uncle Remus. Mild fraying at the head and heel of the spine. Bookplate. Bottom corners mildly abraded. Mild dust darkening to the spine and here and there. Otherwise a bright and attractive copy with gilt on the front cover Br'er Rabbit still quite bright. Blue cloth. Not perfect, but a collectible and attractive copy! Scarce thusly. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 231 [8, ads] pp. With illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 12mo, publisher's brown cloth decorated in gold and black. First edition; first state. BAL 7100. Light foxing to a few leaves; some slight use to cloth; a tight and sound, very attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First state points met -- "presumptive" on page 9, eight pages of ads in back begin with "Treatise". But without floral diaper pattern on endpapers, which here are solid yellow. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. 231 [8] pp. Moderate wear. Blindstamped and gilt stamped cloth
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1881.
Price: US$1291.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, J. C. Harris states this is in part his attempt to preserve and record the southern negro dialect. The front spine seam is completely split and the signatures are loose. There is also some edge wear and a few spots on the cover otherwise the book is complete and clean. This FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING OF HARRIS'S FIRST BOOK IS CERTAINLY WORTH HAVING RESTORED. "Presumptive" for "Presumptuous" in last line page 9, and with no mention of this book in ads at back. 231 pp. plus 8pp. ads at rear of the book.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 231 [8, ads] pp. With illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 12mo, publisher's rust cloth decorated in gold and black. First edition; first printing with "presumptive" on p. 9. BAL 7100. Old annotation on pastedown and owner's signature dated Christmas 1880 on flyleaf; a lovely bright copy with the tiniest areas of rubbing at extremities. Author's first book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER.. Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881, 1881.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; third state. Finely bound early in the 20th century in full black morocco with an elaborately decorated spine; original spine and front cover cloth bound in after the text. Inset onto each pastedown, framed by gilt morocco, is an original watercolor by George H. Norman of Brer Rabbit; signed by the artist. Minor rubbing and a barely visible tide mark at top of the fore-edge; in excellent condition. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good - sunning to spine, rubbing to extrems, but gilt on front board is bright. Binding is weak in places, loose pages repaired at page 73. First edition, first state, scarce. Octavo, original blue gilt- and black-stamped pictorial cloth, gray-olive butterfly design endpapers. First state, with "presumptive" in the last line of page 9. With eight plates and numerous text illustrations by Frederick Church and James Moser. "There has been widespread critical debate surrounding the authorial intentions behind the "Remus" tales, with some alleging that the Caucasian Harris uses [them] to paint an inaccurately rosy picture of race relations in the post-Civil War Reconstruction South, while others maintain [they] are more subversive in tone, acting as [his] tool for presenting more positive depictions of African-American characters than had ever been previously published in American children's literature" (Florence E. Baer).
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings. D.Appleton and Company, 1881.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine Copy In Green Cloth First Edition (1881) Excellent Well Preserved Copy Scarce Title Tight and Fresh
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Harris Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS, His Songs and Sayings. New York D. Appleton and Co 1881, 1881.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, early state, formatted and decorated as the first issue, "presumptive" corrected on p. 9. With numerous illustrations throughout, including many full page, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 8vo, handsomely bound by Bennett in full blue morocco, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with fully gilt panels incorporating floral corner tools and central floral devices gilt, the covers with double gilt fillet borders enclosing a central panel gilt ruled and with elaborate gilt tooling filling the whole, gilt ruled and gilt decorated turnovers, the original blue cloth covers included as the front and rear paste-downs, very skillfully accomplished, original blue cloth spine panel tipped onto the front free-fly, all edges gilt, a very handsome copy. 231 pp. A well preserved copy in a very handsome binding, beautifully preserved with some light bumping and sophistication to the upper corners of the binding, and with a very small chip to the upper corner of the first free-fly. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. The adventures of Brer Rabbit, the Tar Baby, Brer Fox etc. On the Grolier Club List of "100 Influential American Books," on the Newton List of "100 Good Novels," and one of Merle Johnson's "High Spots of American Literature."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state. BAL 7100. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards, spine gilt. Milk chocolate brown end papers. Boards lightly worn. Not recorded in this binding.; 231 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Author's First Book. First Edition First State with all points present. Published 1881. 231 pp. (8) pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. Plates and text illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 7 1/2 x5, pictorial blown cloth stamped in gilt and black, white endpapers printed with butterfly pattern in gray-olive. First Edition. First issue, with "presumptive" for "presumptious" in last line, page 9, and without mention of this book in catalogue at rear. Catalogue begins with Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. BAL 7100. This is an amazingly and beautifully restored copy with original binding materials laid on on new boards; re-sewn with some pages mounted with Japanese tissue; moderate soling to text; front flyleaf chipped; cover design still bright, overall sturdy, presentable and else very good copy. Authors first book
Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER.. Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881, 1881.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first printing. Publisher's brown cloth; spine ends a bit worn; a very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing with "presumptive" on page 9 and the correct ads in the back. (BAL 7100) A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with bright gilt and clean boards. Light rubbing at the spine ends, minor separation within the page block and a short 1/4 inch tear at the inner margin of the title page. A total of eight plates, including the frontis, with several other illustrations within the text. First published in 1881, Uncle Remus was a landmark collection of African American fables and oral tradition that was adapted and edited by Joel Chandler Harris. The work includes 185 tales, which are woven together through the character of Uncle Remus, an older formerly enslaved man who tells the stories to a group of children. The stories were actually written in eye dialect and many of them center around the character of Br'er (Brother) Rabbit, a kind of clever trickster. Read widely, the book was extremely popular as many people had not been exposed to the tales, lifestyles, and ways of speaking that the book depicted. Despite its acclaim, the book has become controversial, particularly for its portrayal of Uncle Remus. On both the Grolier Club's and Merle Johnson's lists for most important works of American literature. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1]-231 [232: blank] [333-340]: ads, flyleaves at front and rear, eight inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, butterfly design endpapers. First edition, first printing. BAL reports three states, probably printings; this one is the first, with "pesumptive," page 9, last line, and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine ." on page [233]. 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 7100. Not in Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900. Short closed tear in margin of plate inserted between pages 158 and 159 and crack along inner rear hinge professionally mended, a nearly fine, lovely copy. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box. (#160344)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state, with "presumptive" for "presumptuous" in the last line, p. 9, and with no mention of this book in the ads at the back of the book. Frontispiece and 7 plates inserted plus other text illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 231, [1], [8, ads) pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Attractive copy of this American classic. "The instant success of this first Uncle Remus book caused the greatest flood of dialect literature the country had known . " (Grolier 100). BAL 7100; Grolier One Hundred American 83; Blockson 101, no. 42 Publisher's brown cloth gilt stamped in gilt and black. Small split to cloth of front joint, a touch of smoke damage to top-edge of textblock, gift inscription on front flyleaf, still an attractive, bright copy. In a quarter brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate of A.W. Lublin Frontispiece and 7 plates inserted plus other text illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 231, [1], [8, ads) pp. 1 vols. 12mo First edition, first state, with "presumptive" for "presumptuous" in the last line, p. 9, and with no mention of this book in the ads at the back of the book.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue with "presumptive" in last line page 9 (versus "presumptuous"). An enduring though controversial Southern classic illustrated by Frederick S. Church & James H. Moser. Small 8vo brown cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; front cover stamped in black with pictorial of Brer Rabbit smoking a pipe in gilt; green butterflies-and-flowers patterned endpapers; 231 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's ads. The stories, songs and sayings herein were gathered and adapted by Harris, a White journalist, from Black people enslaved on a Georgia plantation. While Harris's intent, according to his foreword, may have been to preserve and celebrate traditional African-American oral stories, it should be noted that he nonetheless appropriated them and subsequently profited from doing so. Very good to near fine with gilt strong and spine ends and corners only slightly nicked and worn.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: HARRIS, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS, THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION. With Illustrations By Fredrick S. Church and James H. Moser. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1881 (copyright date is 1880). Small octavo (5 by 8 inches), hardcover brown cloth stamped in gilt and black on the spine and front cover; 231 pages plus advertisements. First Edition, first issue, with "presumptive" mis-spelled at the bottom of page 9 and without this title listed in the rear advertisements (first title listed is "Tale On The Practice Of Medicine"). [BAL 7100; brown binding]. The classic tales by Harris that launched the characters and stories of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. While copies of the first issue are not terribly uncommon- really nice copies are!! This is a terrific copy with gilt bright and very minor wear covers; all hinges are absolutely tight and uncracked with signatures all tight and unsprung. A perfect copy for the finicky collector! With the personal bookplate of Walter Gribben, who was a professor of astronomy and mathematics living in Brooklyn, NY, on the front pastedown [See "The Naturalist's Dictionary, 1898" for his listing].
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Decorated green cloth. BAL 7100: First State; GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 83. Illustrated with 8 plates and text engravings by Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Early owner signature dated 7 January 1881 on the front blank. Clean, tight copy with just a touch of wear to the spine tips and bumped lower corners. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown/Gilt Embossed Cloth. No Markings, No Flaws Save For A Tiny Worm Hole Top Gutter Front Board. All First Issue Points Bal 7100. The Best Copy On The Market.
Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER.. Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881, 1881.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; BAL's first state (and probable printing). Publisher's brown cloth; small name stamp at the top of the front free endpaper and at the top of the title page; minor cloth wear and foxing; else, very good or a little better. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER.. Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881, 1881.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; BAL's second state (and probable printing). Publisher's green cloth; only minute wear; exceptionally clean and bright. In a custom clamshell box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS. His Songs and Sayings. , 1881.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Description: [a handsome copy] The FolkLore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, first printing, of Joel Chandler Harris's first and most beloved book, featuring Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear (with occasional appearances by Brer Terrapin). In addition to 34 such "Legends of the Old Plantation" (including "The Tar-Baby"), the volume includes "Plantation Proverbs" plus Uncle Remus's "Songs" and "Sayings." At the time he wrote these, Harris (who was white) was on the staff of the Atlanta Constitution -- in which newspaper the tales had first begun appearing in 1879. Uncle Remus is both typical and strongly individual, and his tales, based on native legends, are told with a simple humor and authentic dialect that is in perfect harmony with the thing said and the way of saying it" [OCAL]. Some of Harris's tales are today rather politically incorrect, as he portrays the life of a slave as hard but rewarding. This copy is in the first of the "three states, probably printings" [Blanck], with "presumptive" (later changed to "presumptuous") in the last line of page 9, and with no mention of this book in the ads. The cloth color is green -- one of four or five colors used. This copy has the standard original butterfly-patterned endpapers, but they deserve particular mention -- for although these endpapers appear in any of three different colors, this is the first time we have seen a copy where the front and rear colors differ from each other. Blanck says the three colors are grey-blue, grey-olive and pink; neither of these is pink, but to our eyes the front appears to be pure grey while the rear has a green tint -- perhaps this was a test copy? The volume's condition is close to fine -- absolutely fine save for a hint of wear at the spine ends: the cloth is clean, the gilt is bright, and those endpapers are clean and intact. Copies any better than this are scarce. Blanck 7100; one of the Grolier "100 Influential American Books printed before 1900"; one of Johnson's "High Spots of American Literature." Housed in a handsome morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and his Sayings. D. Appleton, New York, 1881.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Issue with the word presumptive instead of presumptuous on page 9 and the correct advertisements on page 223. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocks or leans. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS. D. Appleton, New York, 1881.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the first extensive printed record of the tales of Brer Rabbit and other oral traditions kept by enslaved African Americans before emancipation, this copy with an owner's Christmas gift inscription dated 1880. Georgia-born white journalist Harris sought to document the cultural history of African Americans in his Uncle Remus project, and with his success "a vibrant storytelling culture for adults began its long migration from campfires and slave cabins into the nursery" (Gates & Tatar). Harris painted the plantation life of enslaved people as idyllic, and his collection has depicted, created, and circulated racist stereotypes of African Americans. As complicated as such a legacy is, the collection also acts as a printed record of supreme importance for African-American oral traditions. Robert Bone argues that "[t]o neglect the Brer Rabbit tales because a white man was the first to write them down is to betray the black man's folk tradition" (quoted in Gates and Tatar). In the recent publication of the ANNOTATED AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKTALES edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, the folklore recorded by Harris is given a full chapter and its complex history discussed. "In my house, growing up in Piedmont, West Virginia, we collected Mother Goose and Joel Chandler Harris," Gates told THE NEW YORK TIMES, "My father used to tell Brer Rabbit stories to my brother and me all the time." African American authors continue to draw from this tradition to create art true to their own voices, from Charles Chesnutt's forays into mythic storytelling, to Ralph Ellison's ambiguous Ulysses-Brer Rabbit trickster imagery, to Toni Morrison's TAR BABY, to Jerry Pinkney's visual tours de force. 7.5'' x 5''. Original green cloth stamped in gold and black. With "presumptive" misspelled on p. 9, bottom line, and without ads for this title in rear. Illustrated by Frederick Church and James Moser. Publisher's catalogue at rear. 231, [1], [8] pages. Housed in custom quarter green goatskin clamshell box. Gift inscription on 2nd fly leaf in purple pencil: "Henry ___ / from aunt Julia / Xmas 1880". Expert repair to spine ends, hinges, one leaf, and one plate.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with 8 publisher's advertisement pages present and with the word "presumptive" mis-spelled on the last line of page on p. 9. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's brown cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with a hint of wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy Joel Harris First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
HARRIS Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. , 1881.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton, 1881. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth, butterfly-patterned endpapers. $8500.First edition, first state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book by Harris, the one American writer of the Reconstruction who "has made the most permanent contribution," with eight plates and numerous text illustrations by Church and Moser, in original cloth-gilt."Harris' main concern in setting [the stories] down was to preserve the remnants of a folklore which he was sufficiently farseeing to know would one day perish from the earth unless someone who understood the racial psychology and social philosophy behind it acted as amanuensis to its surviving narrators" (Twenty-three Books, Winterich, 102). "Of all the American writers of [the Reconstruction] period, Joel Chandler Harris has made the most permanent contribution" (Braithwaite, in The New Negro, 32). "It will live as long as Aesop's fables" (John Bigelow). First state, with "presumptive" in the last line of page 9 and no mention of Uncle Remus in the publisher's advertisements. BAL notes four cloth variants and three endpaper variants, no priority. BAL 7100. Booklabel. Owner signature.A few finger smudges to interior, only light rubbing to extremities, gilt bright. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old. , 1881.
Price: US$9350.00 + shipping
Description: HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. Original gilt-pictorial green cloth, housed in custom cloth box. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition of the author's first book. BAL 7100, First state with "presumptive" last line p.9 and advertisements on p.[233]. Grolier American 100, 83. Grolier Children 100, 45. Fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS: His Songs and Sayings. D. Appleton, New York, 1881.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First issue of the first extensive printed record of the tales of Brer Rabbit and other oral traditions kept by enslaved African Americans before emancipation, in the scarce yellow binding, and rarely seen in this condition. Georgia-born white journalist Harris sought to document the cultural history of African Americans in his Uncle Remus project, and with his success "a vibrant storytelling culture for adults began its long migration from campfires and slave cabins into the nursery" (Gates & Tatar). Harris painted the plantation life of enslaved people as idyllic, and his collection has depicted, created, and circulated racist stereotypes of African Americans. As complicated as such a legacy is, the collection also acts as a printed record of supreme importance for African-American oral traditions. Robert Bone argues that "[t]o neglect the Brer Rabbit tales because a white man was the first to write them down is to betray the black man's folk tradition" (quoted in Gates and Tatar). In the recent publication of the ANNOTATED AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKTALES edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, the folklore recorded by Harris is given a full chapter and its complex history discussed. "In my house, growing up in Piedmont, West Virginia, we collected Mother Goose and Joel Chandler Harris," Gates told THE NEW YORK TIMES, "My father used to tell Brer Rabbit stories to my brother and me all the time." African American authors continue to draw from this tradition to create art true to their own voices, from Charles Chesnutt's forays into mythic storytelling, to Ralph Ellison's ambiguous Ulysses-Brer Rabbit trickster imagery, to Toni Morrison's TAR BABY, to Jerry Pinkney's visual tours de force. A remarkably fine copy. 7.5'' x 5''. Original mustard cloth stamped in gold and black. With "presumptive" misspelled on p. 9, bottom line, and without ads for this title in rear. Illustrated by Frederick Church and James Moser. Publisher's catalogue at rear. 231, [1], [8] pages. Slight stress at hinges, else fine in custom slipcase.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$9750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS: THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION with illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881, (1880). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with "presumptive" on last line of p. 9 and no mention of the work in the advertisements at the end). 12mo - 5-1/4" x 7-11/16". Original brown cloth covered boards with upper cover decorated in black and gilt (which remains bright and completely un-rubbed), lettered in gilt on spine, with just a tiny touch of wear at the extremities and a light bump to the top fore edge corner of the upper cover for what is an amazing copy of the book that would hold its own against any other copy out there. Butterfly patterned gray-green endpapers with a small library label from a previous owner affixed to front endpaper. 231, [9] pp. including 8 pp. publisher's catalog at end; [8] leaves of plates printed on one side only and not included in pagination. Frontispiece, title page vignette, the eight plates and numerous other illustrations within text illustrate the first book edition of the author's chronicle of African American tales and legends. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. Housed in a collector's custom quarter brown morocco slipcase.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$11500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue. 231pp + 8pp "New Books" ads at rear (not containing this title, per first issue). Original publisher's navy blue cloth, with bold gilt-stamped illustration on cover of Brer Rabbit in the forest, embossed illustration in black, along with stylized fence, gilt lettering and design/stippling on spine. First Issue, with "presumptive" on last line of page 9, and with no listing of this title in book adv. at end. Original light green pictorial end papers, front hinge completely in tact, rear is cracked. With illustrations throughout by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Laid in is an original autograph letter signed by Harris, with attending envelope, postmarked Feb. 19, '98. The letter (and envelope) is a addressed to Jules Hart, who was at that time the head of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, a Jewish orphanage founded in 1860, and closing offices in 1941. The orphanage found that children thrive better in foster care or small group homes, rather than in large institutions. Written on Harris' monogram stationary, "Atlanta, Ga, 19 February,/'98. My Dear Mr. Hart: I am very much interested in your account of the purpose and method of the Young Folks' League of the Hebrew Asylum. If there is is any charity which can appeal to all hearts, surely it is that which undertakes the ease of orphan children. We have a great deal of charity work so closely done in this country that its benefits are practically lost, but certainly this is not true of any form of Hebrew charity with which I am acquainted." Signed, "Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris." Book is near fine with slight wear to extremities of spine, a very small nick to front free fly, rear hinge cracked along the seam, but clean and bright internally, and a completely unsophisticated copy. Scarce thus, especially with this fine letter showing Harris' empathy for orphans. With the bookplates of Sam Bancroft, industrialist and renowned Pre-Raphaelite collector, as well as the gold embellished bookplate of John Stuart Groves, another prominent rare book collector of the 1900's. Housed in a superb teal-colored quarter crushed morocco and felt-lined case, with gilt lettering on spine.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and his Sayings. D. Appleton, New York, 1881.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "presumptive" on page 9 and the correct advertisements on page 223 beginning with "New Books, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine" A beautiful copy SIGNED by Joel Chandler Harris on a laid in signature. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author housed in a custom slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.