Uncle Remus Story Fox by Joel Chandler (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harry Rountree (illustrator). Spine repaired o/w Ok condition small hardcover some browning to pages, owner name fep 8 colour plates by harry Rountree.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Hardcover edition. (african american, folklore, fairy tale) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

hardback, small 8vo, 182pp, owner's name on endpaper, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, red cloth, corners slightly bumped, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Harry Rountree (illustrator). Hbk; dark green cloth covers with top showing strip of silhouettes of children playing; 7" x 5"; cover a little worn at corners and spine ends; gift inscription on fep (not author) ; 8 colour plates all clean & bright - but not all in the place it states they should be in book! G++ ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

No edition stated (hardback). 4to (32cm by 25cm), 111pp. 12 colour plates by harry Rowntree and 84 pen & ink drawings by Rene Bull. Original brown cloth spine, illustrated front board, plain rear board. The binding is rather rubbed, the rear inner hinge is strained, the endpapers are browned, and there is a gift inscription (dated 1906); overall, this book iis in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rountree, Harry (illustrator). Original red cloth, colour onlay, in tidy condition, a little marked in places, slight evidence of an erased previous owners name, 8 colour plates by Harry Rountree Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harry Rountree (illustrator). Boards worn, foxing to the page edges, eight Rountree plates all present. Bookseller's pencil marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Ausreichend.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Harry Rowntree; Rene Bull (illustrator). An illustrated copy of Joel Chandler Harris' controversial stories. This edition of Uncle Remus is illustrated with numerous in-text line drawings by Rene Bull, and twelve colour plates by Harry Rowntree, collated and complete. Joel Chandler Harris published seven uncle Remus books which he compiled and adapted African American folktales and framing them within a plantation context. Harris also chose to write the stories in his interpretation of Deep South African American Language. Due to these framing devices and stylistic choices, the collection has garnered a lot of controversy since their publication. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. The inscription reads, 'love and best wishes for Christmas and New Year 1943. From Auntie Lina and Uncle Arthur'. Undated. Dated using JISC from the estimations of the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards, which are a little grubby to the bottom edge. Lightly bumped to the head and tail of the spine. The cloth is beginning to fray to the tail, and there is a small centimetre long tear in the cloth at the front joint near the tail. The front hinge is starting, but firm, whilst the rear hinge is starting and is a rather tender. Internally, the binding is generally firm, with some strain at points. Pages are bright with some light handling marls and the occasional patch of light foxing. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. With Eight Coloured Plates By Harry Rountree (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 180 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.44 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Harry Rountree (illustrator). Cream cloth printed in mustard yellow and brown. With Rountree's name misspelled "Rowntree" on the front cover and the title page. With 10 only of 12 color plates. With 84 pen & ink illustrations by Rene Bull. The covers are soiled, some chipping to the spine ends, some apparent dampness to the rear cover at the fore edge, bumped corners, fraying to part of the lower edges. Front gutter show some signs of dampness as well. An as-is copy with the beautiful color plates. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 110 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Harry Rowntree and Rene Bull (illustrator). Raithby Lawrence undated circa 1915, Grey pictorial boards with Brer Rabbit on a leaping Mr. Fox, A nice front board with wear round the edges and bumped corners, Rear board has been in the damp and is stained almost black 2"- 3" along the top edge, Bottom edge a bit wrinkled and last few pages slightly water marked, All 12 plates present with tissue guards but frontis tissue guard is tanned and both EP's have been cut out, Text otherwise in good clean order, Hinges reasonable and binding tight.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Harry Rountree (illustrator). First Thus. 155 pgs + 4 pgs of ads. Red cloth titled in gilt with a full color pastedown, gift inscription, two plates reinserted. Selections from Nights with Uncle Remus, illustrated with 8 color plates by Harry Rountree (preceded by the large paper 1906 edition which contained 12 color plates plus line art by Rene Bull, also published by Nelson). Some characters speak in Southern black dialect. Size: 12mo.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rountree, Harry & Bull, Rene (illustrator). Circa 1941. Good condition with no wrapper. Very large format (12.5 x 10"). Beige cloth with brown and red title and colour illustration to front. With twelve tissue-guarded colour plates by Rountree and eighty-four pen and ink text illustrations by Bull. A wonderful edition of this classic story. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Damp stain to lower edge of front cover (also affecting pastedown inside). Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Grubby fingermarks to page margins throughout. Some light damp staining to edges of plates and tissue-guards (not affecting the actual illustrations). One of the plates has a closed tear to the inner margin at base. Still a decent copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Fabric & Board. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Harry Rowntree & Rene Bull (illustrator). 1st Edition. Beige fabric over board covers with orange and brown titles to front, a little corner wear but front cover appears to have suffered some water damage with fabric detached from boards over top half, some staining which has gone through to first page. d/w chips, tears, missing tipped in illustration, stains and generally down at heel. Inside 110 unmarked pages with stain from front diminishing quickly over first few pages, illustrations all present and bright as new. Binding weak but appears to be holding all pages in place. Needs a little conservation to restore to beautiful scarce 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Different front cover from pictured photo. Ex-Library, usual stamps and markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dated from inscription. Picture shows cloth cover that has been stitched on. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Plates and illustrations by Harry Rowntree and René Bull. (illustrator). Illustrated edition. Illustrated edition. Small 4to. Title printed in red & black. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket with mounted illustration, price-clipped. Classic American children's literature, presenting folktales rooted in Southern Black oral traditions, accompanied by vibrant illustrations by Harry Rowntree and René Bull. Cloth a little darkened at spine and edges; jacket price-clipped, loss to spine ends, chip to mounted image. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Plates and illustrations by Harry Rowntree and René Bull. (illustrator). Illustrated edition. Illustrated edition. Small 4to. Title printed in red & black. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket with mounted illustration. Classic of American children's literature, here illustrated by Harry Rowntree and René Bull. Cloth a little darkened at spine and edges; jacket with some loss to spine ends and fore corners. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Harry Rowntree; Rene Bull (illustrator). A copy of this charming of this story comprising a collection of numerous African American fables and oral traditions in one as proposed by Joel Chandler Harris, richly illustrated. An undated copy, dated from Jisc 1939. This work was originally published in 1881 in book form, and it comprises a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris, with animals as characters. Many of these stories are didactic, and want to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. The present stories are told through the characters of Mr. Fox and and Brer Rabbit, with Uncle Remus being the narrator.Illustrated with twelve coloured plates by Harry Rowntree and eighty-four pen and ink pictures by René Bull. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, with some soiling to the boards. The dust wrapper is sound with some shelf wear and edge wear, some minor soiling to the front wrap and a minor chipping; unclipped. Internally, firmly bound. With only a minor faint spotting to the endpapers, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with twelve coloured plates by Harry Rowntree and eighty-four pen and ink pictures by René Bull. Collated, complete. Very Good. book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rountree, Harry & Bull, Rene (illustrator). Circa 1942. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Very large format (12.5 x 10"). Beige cloth with brown and red title and colour illustration to front. With twelve tissue-guarded colour plates by Rountree and eighty-four pen and ink text illustrations by Bull. A wonderful edition of this classic story. Spine and corners bumped. A dozen or so pinholes to rear cover (a couple of which penetrate the last few pages). Inscription in ink to front endpaper (dated 1942). Light foxing to endpapers. Contents clean. Green wrapper (with pictorial onlay to front) is edge creased with tears at corners which are repaired with magic tape on verso, creasing to top edge of rear panel and the same pinholes affecting the rear cover. Very slight loss at corners. A nice copy of this attractive but scarce edition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. [1915]. First edition with these illustrations. Small folio tan pictorial cloth lettered in orange and brown. Illustrated with 12 magnificent full-page color plates by Rountree and numerous line drawings in the text by Rene Bull. Light sunning to the spine and board extremities, else fine in a fine dust jacket which has a color onlay on the front panel. One of the finest Uncle Remus renditions, very scarce in the jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Collation, 111p,with 12 coloured plates by Harry Rowntree and 84 pen and ink pictures by Rene Bull. Book measures 12 1/2 x 10 inches.No date but circa 1915. Bound in original publishers decorative cloth. Cloth slight faded, some light staining on edges. Binding in very good condition. Dust jacket chipped along edges with some loss. Dust jacket in very good condition.Internally, pages and plates in very good clean condition.A very nice copy, rare in dust jacket Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.