Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

This is a pristine copy of Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, 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 Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern US, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect which was his interpretation of Deep South African-American language of the time. Uncle Remus is the fictional narrator; Br'er Rabbit is the main character.

This is a copy of the Heritage Club edition, published in 1957.

158 pages, heavily illustrated with woodcuts by the American artist Seong Moy (1921-2013). In a slipcase/box.

This book does not appear to have been read. There is not a mark in it or on it.

It's in mint condition.