NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS: MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION
Boston, Mass: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5 in., pp. 416. Illustrated with frontis and 19 additional plates by Frederick Church. Gray cloth boards with elaborate black image of a fox stealing a rabbit and gilt title to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities with chips to spine ends. Darkening to spine with rubbing to the spine's gilt title. Touch of soiling to front. Corners just showing. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; Christmas inscription to front free endpaper. Small newspaper article pasted to front flyleaf. Front free endpaper and flyleaf partially detached at bottom of page. Open tear at fore-edge of frontispiece tissue-guard. Pencil writing on rear free endpaper. Good. Item #100553
The pasted in newspaper article is entitiled: "The Banjo Never Heard on the PLantation" from the Atlanta Constitution.
The handwritten notes on the rear endpaper is a tidy 10-point summary entitled: "Some Peculiarities of the Negro Dialect"
Price: $300.00