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Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. Frederick A. Stokes, 1907.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book has covers detached from the book block, covers are attached to one another through the spine fabric, book block intact, rear fly leaf heavily chipped, pages unmarked and age toned, covers scuffed and soiled with heavy wear to the corners, cover illustrations with a little abrasion but still very colorful, no names.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong 4to. [63 leaves (unnumbered).]. Title printed in black, the remaining leaves all colour lithographed in comic strip format. Quarter-brown cloth over colour-illustrated boards (minor rubbing, scuffing, minor wear to corners, inner hinges repaired), still G copy, w/ former ownership bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, thus, of this early comic strip version of the beloved African-American tales in southern dialect, with illustrations by Conde very reminiscent of the images executed by A.B. Frost in earlier Uncle Remus works. These strips first appeared from June to October, 1906 in the McClure Syndicate Sunday comic strip. These stories were drawn from the author's own experiences of collecting oral myths and legends, many of which were numerous versions of the same story.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. Frederick Stokes, 1907.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in green oblong 4to with front pastedown, pages not numbered, printed on one side only. First edition published September, 1907. Minor wear at extremities, front pastedown slightly soiled. Pages quite clean, bright and tight.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.