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Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1957
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: very good to near fine. Moy, Seong (illustrator). First edition thus. Square octavo. xviii, 158, (2)pp. Rough woven blue & brown cloth, with front cover design on a blind stamped brown background. Spine with wood grained label. Housed in wood-grained paper covered slipcase. Illustrated with 10 full-page and numerous smaller woodcuts. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363) printed at The Thistle Press and signed by the woodcut artist Seong Moy on the limitation leaf. Slipcase a bit edgeworn and age toned but still sound. Rubber donation stamp on endpapers, title page and several text leaves (priced accordingly). This edition presents the legends, songs, and sayings of Uncle Remus, as published in the 1920 edition of Joel Chandler Harris's attempt to record traditional black stories of his time.