Lot 82
  • 82

Harris, Joel Chandler

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Printed book
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings.  New York: D. Appleton, 1895

8vo (9 x 6 1/4 in.; 228 x 158 mm).  112 illustrations by A. B. Frost; small stain on half-title.  Publisher's gilt-stamped art vellum, top edges gilt; some light soiling to spine and extremities. 

Provenance

Acquisition: James Cummins

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

Revised edition, with a new preface by Harris and the first edition with the celebrated Frost illustrations.  Copy 98 of 250 large-paper copies, signed by both Harris and Frost.  Frost's illustrations for Uncle Remus are among the greatest of all American children's book illustrations.