Beschreibung:

HARRIS (JOEL CHANDLER)Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-lore of the Old Plantation, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "presumptive" on p.9 and no mention of the work in the advertisements at the end, frontispiece and illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, patterned grey endpapers, old newspaper article on Remus pasted to blank verso of final text leaf, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Joel Chandler Harris") loosely inserted, publisher's brown pictorial cloth gilt, minor rubbing at spine ends and corners [BAL 7100; Grolier American 83], 8vo, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1881FootnotesFirst edition of Harris's popular retellings of African-American folk tales and myths. Included with the lot is an autograph letter signed by Harris, dated 28 May 1883, on paper headed "The Atlanta Constitution" (of which he was assistant editor) requesting that he be sent two copies of the June issue of The Century magazine in which "I am told it has something of a sketch of mine, "Teague Poteet"". Provenance: G. Laffam, inscription above purple stamp of the St. Pancras House Improvement Society on front free endpaper, with stamp repeated inside the lower cover.