Author: Joel Chandler Harris; Illustrated by J.M. Conde
Title: Uncle Remus and the Little Boy
Publication Information: Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. Publishers (Note: copyright, 1910 by Small, Maynard & Company (Incorporated Entered at Stationers' Hall. The University Press, Cambridge U.S.A.)
Call #: PS1809 .A1 1910
Book Size: 21.7 cm (H); 17.5 cm (L); 2.5 cm (spine)
Cover: Yellow cloth cover with paper illustration overlaid. Title and author full name toward the top; two animals (a rabbit and a bear, both clothed) running left, outdoors. Color illustration is yellow, brown, green, orange, and blue; illustrator's signature is bottom right. Back cover is plain yellow cloth. Spine: frayed; title, author's full name, publisher stamped on spine (looks black, not gilt). No design elements.
Inside Book Covers: plain beige paper
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: opposite the title page, looks like it is pen and ink, colored/painted in. An Anglo boy sitting in a chair facing left away from the viewer, and an African American man sitting behind him on a crate, also facing left, away from the Viewer; hut behind, and trees in the distance; open can at their feet. Caption: "I wish, said the little boy, 'I wish I could fly.'" Note graphic on title page: floral bouquet with scroll, "Scire quod sciendum". Includes a list of illustrations - and there are a lot of illustrations here, most pen and ink/black and white
Comments:
- includes a table of contents - Brer rabbit stories among others
- note dialect
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- Children's Literature
- representations of African Americans
- Illustration
