Joel Chandler Harris / BALAAM AND HIS MASTER Signed 1st Edition 1891

Author: Joel Chandler Harris Title: BALAAM AND HIS MASTER Publication: US: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891 Edition: First Edition. Very Good + / No Dust Jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf (Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris). Harris's sixth book, a collection of Georgia tales. Bookplate inside the front cover with penciled notation above it ("Autographed by author for").

The bookplate indicates that it belonged to Frederick W. Skiff, a noted collector and bibliophile. Interior text is clean with only faint, sporadic foxing, mostly to endpapers and flyleaf. Text block is faintly foxed. Boards are mostly clean with only a few small marks on the back cover.

Binding is tight with slight lean to spine. Atlanta Vintage Books has been serving our community of book lovers for over 30 years. We specialize in used, new, collectible, and vintage books. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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