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Uncle Remus Stories was first published in 1906 by Joel Chandler Harris, is presented here with full illustrations by A.B . Frost and Harry Rowntree. Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States African-Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him. Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a lump of tar and puts clothing on it. When Br'er Rabbit comes along he addresses the "tar baby" amiably, but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as Tar Baby's lack of manners, punches it, and becomes stuck.
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After the first book appeared in 1880, Joel Chandler Harris was deluged with letters from readers all over the country asking for more stories of Brer Rabbit and his friends--so for the remaining years of his life he collected and wrote them. Richard Chase, noted folklorist and author of Jack Tales and Grandfather Tales, compiled and edited the volume after Harris s death, and his occasional footnotes and word definitions contribute to our understanding of the dialect. Chase s belief in the importance of folktales and Harris s work is summed up in his foreword: "These tales grew up in the soil of our nation. They came from the soul of a people. They endure."
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- PublisherNunney, Somerset : R.S. Surtees Society
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0948560142
- ISBN 13 9780948560149
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Uncle Remus : Or Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit and Mr Terrapin
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Elwes, A T (illustrator). xxxii, 248pp, 6pp, 'list of subscribers'; many black and white, engraved illustrations in-text including vignette. Brown cloth-covered boards, black design and titles on front and spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo.Clean, bright, facsimile copy of the ever popular children's tales. Hardback edition protected in a plastic dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 007432
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Uncle Remus : or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Terrapin / by Joel Chandler Harris ; with fifty illustrations by A.T. Elwes
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Book Description 1st Edition in this form. Fine copy in the original title-blocked, brown cloth. Black-tooled titles and illus. to front panel and spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his bookplate to front pastedown.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages; Physical description: xxxi, 248p. : 50 illus., frontis. ; 21cm. Fine facsimile reprint of the edition published: London : Routledge, 1881. Introduction to the R.S. Surtees Society's edition by Roy Kerridge. Also includes original "Introduction to the American edition", by "J. C. H." Subjects: English fiction -- Children's stories -- United States. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 212653
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A T Elwes (illustrator). Facsimile Edition. *** BOOK in very good clean tight and unmarked condition. Brown boards with black titles on spine and upper board, and Brer Rabbit looking fiesty. Intr1oduction for Surtees Society by Roy Kerridge dated 1992; this is unpaginated. Then follows the facsimile of the 1881 Facsimile edition - xxx pages prelims and introduction by the author, 248 pages, fifty illustrations. At the back of the book is a list of Subscribers to the Society up to June 1992. These stories were first published in England by Routledge in 1881. Size: 210x140mm. Seller Inventory # 006962
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Book Description 1st Edition in this form. Fine copy in the original title-blocked, brown cloth. Black-tooled titles and illus. to front panel and spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his bookplate to front pastedown.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages; Physical description: xxxi, 248p. : 50 illus., frontis. ; 21cm. Fine facsimile reprint of the edition published: London : Routledge, 1881. Introduction to the R.S. Surtees Society's edition by Roy Kerridge. Also includes original "Introduction to the American edition", by "J. C. H." Subjects: English fiction -- Children's stories -- United States. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 212653
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