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HARRIS, Joel Chandler (1848–1908). Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 8vo (190 x 125 mm). Frontispiece, 7 plates and in–text illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial blue cloth gilt stamped in black and gilt (spine gently darkened, light rubbing at extremities). Provenance: contemporary gift inscription; Arthur Swann (1875–1959), bookplate of noted bibliophile and chief cataloguer at Anderson Galleries in New York. FIRST EDITION, third state, “presumptuous” in last line of p. 9, and 8 pages of publisher's advertisements with p. [233] devoted to reviews of Uncle Remus. BAL 7100; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56–57.