The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Very Good. Item #49176
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's orange decorative cloth stamped in gilt and tan, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers; xiv,190pp.; color frontispiece with printed tissue guard, eight leaves of half-tone illus. throughout (collated complete), text printed within brown pictorial border. Brief and faint discoloration at spine crown, small closed tear to title page with very brief tape repair, 20th century ownership rubberstamp of a Richard S. Fay to front flyleaf; overall a Very Good, bright and sound example.
The white Georgia journalist's later collection of plantation folktales as told in rhyme by the fictional character Uncle Remus.
BAL 7154.
Price: $125.00