Uncle Remus or Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit and Mr Terrapin

Nice tight copy with illustrated colour decorations in green cloth to front board, spine discoloured but very good, colour frontise, 6th edition, small inscription on front paste down, browning to endpapers, some foxing throughout but nice copy, xxxi+288p black and white and colour illustrations. Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post–Reconstruction era Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. London publishers Chatto & Windus released multiple impressions of Uncle Remus (often titled Uncle Remus or Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit, And Mr Terrapin or Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings).