Joel Chandler Harris
Wally Wanderoon and His Story Telling Machine. Karl Moseley illustrations.
Hardcover
(McClue Phillips & Co. March 15, 1903)
, 1st edition
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. 1903. First Edition, First State, with 8 pages of ads in back. Illustrations by Karl Moseley. 8.5" x 6.25", 294 pp + ads. Original pictorial tan cloth. Light soiling and edgewear, tips bumped, a few stain spots on front panel. See scans. Tasteful previous owner's inscription at Christmas, 1904 on ffep. Very Good. Solidly bound and bright. True first edition/first state of another work of Old South children's fiction by the beloved creator of Uncle Remus. The collection of children's stories in Wally Wanderoon and his Story Telling Machine - executed as the entertainment of four children in the Reconstruction South by a mysterious little old man and his storytelling machine - are in most cases told in either black or southern dialect, a Harris forte. With magical illustrations by Karl Moseley, a fascinating trip for adults as well. l-44n