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Uncle Remus : legends of the old plantation / By Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 41
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Remus, Uncle (Storyteller)--Fiction.
- Remus.
- Remus, Uncle (Storyteller).
- Georgia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Georgia.
- Manners and customs.
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Plantation life--Fiction.
- Plantation life.
- Animals--Fiction.
- Animals.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Waverley.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 141 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Uncle Remus stories
- Place of Publication:
- Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1950?]
- Summary:
- Uncle Remus knows many tales to tell Miss Sally's little boy--tales about animals like peace loving Mr. Possum, and tricky Brer Rabbit, how the deluge came to be, tales about life on the old plantation.
- Contents:
- Uncle Remus initiates the little boy
- The wonderful Tar-Baby story
- Why Mr. Possum loves peace
- How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
- The story of the deluge, and how it came about
- Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox
- Mr. Fox is again victimized
- Mr. Fox is "outdone" by Mr. Buzzard
- Miss Cow falls a victim to Mr. Rabbit
- Mr. Terrapin appears upon the scene
- Mr. Wolf makes a failure
- Mr. Fox tackles Old Man Tarrypin
- The awful fate of Mr. Wolf
- Mr. Fox and the deceitful frogs
- Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the game
- Old Mr. Rabbit, he's a good fisherman
- Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the butter
- Mr. Rabbit finds his match at last
- The fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow
- How Mr. Rabbit saved his meat
- Mr. Rabbit meets his match again
- A story about the little rabbits
- Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
- Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog
- How Mr. Rabbit lost his fine bushy tail
- Mr. Terrapin shows his strength
- Why Mr. Possum has no hair on this tail
- The end of Mr. Bear
- Mr. Fox gets into serious business
- How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a dust
- A plantation witch
- "Jacky-my-Lantern"
- Why the Negro is black
- The sad fate of Mr. Fox.
- Notes:
- In slipcase.
- "Dish yer book's set in der Waberley types, en' printed onner sho' nuff speshully-made papuh fer de Petuh Pawpuh Press. Yassuh!"--Colophon
- Not in Donnelly & Dobkin.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- OCLC:
- 2097308
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