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Uncle Remus' Tar-Baby, First Edition
Uncle Remus' Tar-Baby, First Edition
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Description
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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. (8vo) 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. X-mas gift inscription from original owner in the year of publication on the front flyleaf.
Condition
Some soiling to cloth, rubbing to edges; very good or better.
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Uncle Remus' Tar-Baby, First Edition

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