Harris, Joel Chandler | Uncle Remus signed by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost

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Harris, Joel Chandler

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

8vo (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

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.