Author: HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
Title: Uncle Remus: [34 Stories] (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library edition presenting 34 stories by Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908). In these stories, Harris used the device of having his Uncle Remus character and various animal friends share folklore from the pre-war South. With illustrations by A. B. Frost. Includes a black & white portrait of Harris by Stan Hunter near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is included. --- Bound in dark green bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Red silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, newish and possibly unread but with a tiny scuffed spot to front cover fore-edge.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (14), 172 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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