BANKS, MARY ROSS

Bright Days in the Old Plantation Time

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1882. First Edition. Black dialect fiction. Wright 286. Publisher’s illustrated cloth; comically depicting a dandified black man in front of a slave cabin. A nearly fine copy. This book relates a version of the “Brer Rabbit, Brer Wolf and Tar Baby” story, immortalized by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

[Book #1918]

Price: $200.00