{"product_id":"daddy-jake-the-runaway-joel-chandler-harris-1889-first-edition","title":"Daddy Jake the Runaway: and Short Stories Told After Dark by \"Uncle Remus\"","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"16\"\u003e(Children's Books \/ 19th Century Illustration \/ African Americana) HARRIS, Joel Chandler. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci data-index-in-node=\"90\" data-path-to-node=\"16\"\u003eDADDY JAKE THE RUNAWAY: AND SHORT STORIES TOLD AFTER DARK BY \"UNCLE REMUS.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"p-rc_afdea8e1e4dfeb5a-31\" data-path-to-node=\"17\"\u003eNew-York: The Century Co., [1889], (1889). \u003cb data-index-in-node=\"43\" data-path-to-node=\"17\"\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/b\u003e. 4to - 10-5\/16\" x 8-3\/8\". [2] leaves, [1], 2-145, [1] pp. \u003cspan class=\"citation-422 citation-end-422\"\u003eOriginal cream color glazed paper covered boards with decoration printed in black and titles printed in black and red to front cover; decoration printed in black and red and titles printed in black to spine; decoration printed in black and red to back cov\u003csup data-turn-source-index=\"1\" class=\"superscript embedded\"\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eer. \u003cstrong\u003eOriginal publisher's pictorial Manila paper dust jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e printed in red, matching the design of the book. Plain buff color endpapers. The volume contains fourteen short children's stories by \"Uncle Remus\" based on African American tales and legends, illustrated by E. W. Kemble with black and white line drawings throughout. Preserved in a collector's cloth folder and quarter morocco slipcase. [BAL 7117].\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c!----\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"18\"\u003eThe physical condition of the item is graded \u003cstrong\u003eVERY GOOD +\u003c\/strong\u003e for the book and \u003cstrong\u003eVERY GOOD\u003c\/strong\u003e for the dust jacket (utilizing the standard antiquarian book grading scale for works on paper). The binding exhibits minor rubbing to the extremities. The dust jacket is age-tanned and moderately soiled, with two small chips to the lower edge of the front panel and two chips to the back panel—a smaller one at the top edge and a larger one at the lower fore-edge corner. Internally, the leaves and illustrations are without defect or flaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-path-to-node=\"19\"\u003eLate Nineteenth-Century African American Folklore and Plantation Literature\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"20\"\u003ePublished in the autumn of 1889, \u003ci data-index-in-node=\"33\" data-path-to-node=\"20\"\u003eDaddy Jake the Runaway\u003c\/i\u003e marks a significant continuation of Joel Chandler Harris's transmission of dialect-based African American folklore. Unlike his earlier compilations, the title story follows a continuous narrative arc concerning an enslaved plantation foreman who flees into the local wetlands after defending himself against an abusive overseer, reflecting the complex racial dynamics and paternalistic frameworks deeply embedded in Post-Reconstruction Southern fiction. The volume is notably enhanced by the extensive pen-and-ink illustrations of Edward Windsor Kemble, whose visual interpretations defined the contemporary print iconography of the American South. Kemble’s detailed line work provides an essential historical record of the era's popular illustration styles, capturing the structural environments, costuming, and expressive caricatures that dominated mainstream publishing houses during the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-path-to-node=\"21\"\u003eSeries Bibliography, Census, and Market Scarcity\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"22\"\u003eThe fragile construction of \u003ci data-index-in-node=\"28\" data-path-to-node=\"22\"\u003eDaddy Jake the Runaway\u003c\/i\u003e—utilizing lightweight glazed paper over thick paperboards—rendered the binding highly susceptible to severe corner bumping, edge abrasions, and spine chipping. Consequently, pristine copies are uncommon, but the preservation of the original un-backed Manila paper dust jacket represents a remarkable survival, as these temporary packaging elements were almost universally discarded by contemporary readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"23\"\u003e\u003cb data-index-in-node=\"0\" data-path-to-node=\"23\"\u003eTHIS REMARKABLE FIRST EDITION SPECIMEN OF \u003cem\u003eDADDY JAKE THE RUNAWAY,\u003c\/em\u003e RETAINING ITS EXTREMELY RARE PICTORIAL MANILA DUST JACKET, REPRESENTS A CRITICAL ACQUISITION FOR INSTITUTIONAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OR EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION, POST-RECONSTRUCTION STUDIES, OR AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e# 000783\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wallace \u0026 Clark, Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43237487509653,"sku":null,"price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0459\/2589\/2245\/products\/daddyjake0320190125.jpg?v=1676177090","url":"https:\/\/wallaceandclark.com\/products\/daddy-jake-the-runaway-joel-chandler-harris-1889-first-edition","provider":"Wallace \u0026 Clark, Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}