Synopsis
“Were it not for the foresight of the R.S. Surtees Society, Brer Rabbit would live on but Uncle Remus might be forgotten.” writes Roy Kerridge in his introduction. Joel Chandler Harris’ less well known animal stories of Plantation life fell out of favour when the ‘dis and dat’ patois of the animal characters was deemed politically incorrect. In response to this Sir Charles Pickthorn Bt. decided to re-publish. His decision is minuted in the Annals of the Society as having been taken “In order to annoy the people whom the Chairman wishes to annoy.” As a result the Society is perhaps the only place where an unbowdlerised copy of these marvellously imaginative, exciting tales may be found.
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About the Author
After the first book appeared in 1880, Joel Chandler Harris was deluged with letters from readers all over the country asking for more stories of Brer Rabbit and his friends--so for the remaining years of his life he collected and wrote them. Richard Chase, noted folklorist and author of Jack Tales and Grandfather Tales, compiled and edited the volume after Harris s death, and his occasional footnotes and word definitions contribute to our understanding of the dialect. Chase s belief in the importance of folktales and Harris s work is summed up in his foreword: "These tales grew up in the soil of our nation. They came from the soul of a people. They endure."
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 248pp. (Brown spine) 8vo. sized. 1992 Surtees Society facsimile reprint of the 1881 first edition. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. Original publisher's brown cloth boards - stamped in black complete with glassine jacket. No inscriptions. The slightest of spotting to the fore-edges. The jacket not price-clipped. A very good copy indeed. Seller Inventory # 024702
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Uncle Remus or Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit and Mr Terrapin
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A T Elwes (illustrator). Facsimile Edition. *** BOOK in very good clean tight and unmarked condition. Brown boards with black titles on spine and upper board, and Brer Rabbit looking fiesty. Intr1oduction for Surtees Society by Roy Kerridge dated 1992; this is unpaginated. Then follows the facsimile of the 1881 Facsimile edition - xxx pages prelims and introduction by the author, 248 pages, fifty illustrations. At the back of the book is a list of Subscribers to the Society up to June 1992. These stories were first published in England by Routledge in 1881. Size: 210x140mm. Seller Inventory # 006962
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