Presented in this lot is "Nights With Uncle Remus", by Joel Chandler Harris, copyright 1911 by his wife Esther three years after his death, with illustrations, Houghton Mifflin Company publisher. Harris led two professional lives. As the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the "New South", a slogan in the history of the American South first used after the American Civil War. Stressing regional and racial reconciliation, reformers used it to call for a modernization of society and attitudes, to integrate more fully with the United States as a whole, rejecting the economy and traditions of the "Old South." As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition. As a young teenager, Harris lived on the Turnwold Plantation in Georgia and spent hundreds of hours in the slave quarters during time off from his job at the newspaper The Countryman. It was at Turnwold where he absorbed the stories, language, and inflections of people like Uncle George Terrell, Old Harbert, and Aunt Crissy. The African-American animal tales they shared later became the foundation and inspiration for Harris's Uncle Remus tales. George Terrell and Old Harbert in particular became models for Uncle Remus, as well as role models for Harris. The blue cloth bound illustrated stamped hardcover is in nice condition, scuffing and fading observed to covers, evidence of past repair to loose rear cover, loose, spine. Intact pages exhibit age tanning and slight foxing, measures 5"W x 7.5"L x 1.5"D, weight 1lb.