Harris, Joel Chandler. Nights With Uncle Remus. Frontispiece and illustrations by Frederick S. Church. 8vo, brown cloth pictorially stamped in black and ornamentally lettered in gilt. First Edition. Very fine copy; contemporary ownership signature on

Harris, Joel Chandler. Nights With Uncle Remus. Frontispiece and illustrations by Frederick S. Church. 8vo, brown cloth pictorially stamped in black and ornamentally lettered in gilt. First Edition. Very fine copy; contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Boston: Osgood, 1883 E500-750 The second Uncle Remus book. These stories, collected from ex-slaves and essentially re-written by Harris, are directly derived from the " Anansi' stories of Western African origin. The story of the Tar Baby, for example occurs in many variations in Western African lore. Bal 1609; Blockson Collection 6000