Uncle Remus' Tar-Baby, First Edition
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Description
Heading: (Frost, A.B., illustrator)
Author: Harris, Joel Chandler
Title: The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: [1904]
Description:
Author: Harris, Joel Chandler
Title: The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: [1904]
Description:
xii, 190 pp. Illustrated with 9 plates from paintings by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble, including a color frontispiece by Kemble, with printed tissue-guard; wood-engraved decorations in margins throughout; decorative endpapers. 21.5x14 cm (8½x5½"), original cloth stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. First Edition.
A controversial and distinctly American set of folk tales. Harris has alternately been praised for preserving and criticized for appropriating African-American folk tales of former slaves. Ink ownership marks of previous owner on front flyleaf.
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Slight rubbing to cloth; front hinge cracked, faint toning to pages; very good.
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Uncle Remus' Tar-Baby, First Edition
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