Uncle Remus Returns
Author: Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)
Year: 1918
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place: Boston and New York
Description:
[i-ii], [i-x]-175+[printer's imprint] with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 7/89") bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. Illustrated by A B Frost and J M Conde. (BAL: 7168) First edition.
Uncle Remus Returns is a posthumous collection of African American folktales compiled by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1918. The volume serves as a sequel to his highly popular, yet historically controversial, plantation folklore series. The text originally appeared as stories published between 1905 and 1906 in the Metropolitan Magazine, before being consolidated into a single volume. Folklore scholars note that the stories in this specific volume weave together a mix of traditional African, European, and regional indigenous folklore themes.
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880-1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.
Condition:
Some staining to back cover, previous owner's neat ink gift inscription to front end paper. Jacket edges and spine ends chipped else a very good copy in like jacket.
