[Rarebooks] FS: UNCLE REMUS with Fine Autograph Quotation

[Charles Agvent]

HARRIS, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS. New York: 
D. Appleton and Company, 1890. Early Edition. Decorated blue cloth. 
GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 83. Illustrated with 8 plates and text 
engravings by Frederick S. Church and James Moser. While not a First 
Edition (1882), this copy has a wonderful SIGNED AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION on 
the front endpaper: "'Oh, don't stay long -- Oh, don't stay late--/Let 
it be a long ways ter de Goodbye Gate!'/Joel Chandler Harris/West End, 
Atlanta:/15 May, 1891." While this quote has been reported to come from 
UNCLE REMUS, it in fact is from a Southern ballad, a Corn-husking song 
titled "Round It Up A Heap It Up": "Round it up a heap it up a Round it 
up a corn, A joog-a-loa./De big owl hoot and cry for his mate, My honey, 
my love!/Oh, don't stay long, oh, don't stay late.../It ain't so fur to 
de goodbye gate." In the book "UNCLE REMUS," JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AS 
SEEN AND REMEMBERED BY A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS, the authors on pages 
106-108 explain how Harris would usually write this quote in his books. 
When asked to write an aphorism in a book, Harris said he had no 
aphorisms and would write this quote. The closest it comes to anything 
in UNCLE REMUS is the quote "don't stay long!" which occurs in THE 
PLOUGH-HANDS' SONG (JASPER COUNTY-1860.) on pages 161-162. In any case 
survivals of any edition of UNCLE REMUS with any quote are scarce. Some 
aging to the text; the covers bright and strong. Near Fine. (#020824) 
     $2,000

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