Harris, Joel Chandler
Uncle Remus Returns
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Seller ID: 2728 Illustrations by A. B. Frost and J. M. Conde. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, September 1918. First edition, printing (pp. x, 175). Small octavo (19 cm) in publisher’s pictorial tan cloth; colour frontis and seven b & w illustrations. The last of the collected Uncle Remus stories by the American folklorist, writer, and editor. As an editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Joel Chandler Harris (1845- 1908) supported reconciliation between the races and economic development of the South. As a folklorist and writer, he preserved traditional tales from the west African oral tradition (Br’er Rabbit stories) and introduced them into the wider literary culture. A tight, clean copy. Price: $100.00
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