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A Note on the Text, Harris Editions, and Major Harris Collections

This edition of Nights with Uncle Remus reproduces the text of the first edition, published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, in November 1883. As was the case with his first book, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880), Nights carried a list price of $1.50.