On the Plantation [Hardcover] Harris, Joel Chandler

sold this item at auction for $620 in August 2022. First edition copy of Joel Chandler Harris’ 1892 work “On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy’s Adventures During the War.” New York: D. Appleton, 1892. Presented in publisher’s pictorial cloth and with original advertisements to the back, including an ad for Uncle Remus. “On the Plantation” is a mostly autobiographical work by Joel Chandler Harris, a New South journalist and folklorist who presents the unique southern African American dialect in this book.