Uncle Remus. With the illustrations of A. B. Frost by Harris, Joel Chandler - 1984

The Franklin Library, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good. . Full red leather with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering and full gilt embellishments. All edges gilt, silk moire endpapers and bookmark. Minor edge wear may be present due to storage. Pages/boards clean, binding tight, appears unread.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature / a limited edition collection. Gilt-stamped leather. Very Fine. Bill Oakes. 8vo (8 3/8" x 5 7/8" x 7/8"), full green leather with gilt tooling to the spine and covers with all page edges protected by .22k gold foil, 2 raised bands, Illustrated with B&W chapter-headings by A.B. Frost; a fine volume in Franklin Library's "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature," green ribbon page-marker; green watered silk endpapers, 143, [144] pages. Weight: 1 lb. 3 oz. Very Fine leather-bound copy of an attractively illustrated edition of this classic about Southern critters that humorously outsmart others.<br /> <br /> A[rthur] B[urdett] Frost (1851 - 1928), was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Brer Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus… Read More

Melbourne: E. W. Cole, 1905. Paperback, very good condition, black & white drawings (including frontispiece), pages toned (cover lightly toned), spine repaired (black cloth, original spine laid down), some edgewear. 312 pp. (Estimated date, 1900s, Trove catalogue.) Classic tales told by the old Georgian African-American slave, featuring Brer Rabbit, Brer Bar, Brer Fox and and their animal friends. (Scarce Australian reprint, by the eccentric Melbourne bookseller, E. W. Cole, with two extra shops in Sydney, and one in Adelaide.).

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1884 Edition not stated. Hardcover book . Decorative brown paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. xvi (preface by the author), 190pp. With engravings in text. Very Good. Covers lightly marked with small ink spots and inked-in 'the' to back; rubbed edges. Binding sound. Pages generally a little darkened and with scattered foxing and a few marks. Pictures available.

Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original elaborately gilt-tooled full leather. The classic FL design; raised bands, gilt borders etc. An exceptional example; corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. As new and still in the publisher's shrink-wrap. Description: 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Summary: Thirty-four of the tales told by the old Georgian slave, featuring Brer B'ar, Brer Rabbit, and their animal friends. Subjects: African Americans --Folklore. Notes: Accompanied by ""Notes from the editors"" (22 p. ) laid in. Series: The Collector's library of the world's best-loved books.

Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin, 1982T. hardcover. Very Good. .

London: David Bogue, 1881.. First English edition, 8vo, xviii, 192, 32 advertisement pp. 3 plates plus illustrations in the text, marginal dampstaining to the lower part of each plate, slight loss to the edges of the free endpapers. Original gilt and black decorated cloth, recently recased with repairs to the spine ends, some rubbing.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Printing. Hardcover - as published. 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 Harris's tool for presenting more positive depictions of African-American characters than had ever been previously published in… Read More