Nights With Uncle Remus

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., [1911]. Twenty sixth edition. Hardcover brown octavo, stamped and illustrated boards with gilt title to front and spine, old attractive bookplate on front inside cover; 404 pages: plates, b&w illustrations; 20 cm Minor chaffing to spine head and tail, one chipped plate (approx. 1 x 1/4 inch outer edge, not affecting illus.) and very few stains on a couple leaves; otherwise overall good condition. Gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Remarkably bright and crisp illustrations and gilt titles to front board and spine. Overall, about good+. Hardcover.

Traditional tales told by slaves, written in dialect; African American Folklore, Southern, ethnology, legends.