231, [1] + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout, including 8 full-page plates, and a title page vignette, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser; decorative endpapers. 7½x5, original decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, First State.

An American children's classic and the author's first book. First state with "presumptive" on the last line of page 9 (later was corrected to "presumptuous") and with the correct ads on p. [233], listing other "New Books" (later changed to being just reviews devoted to Uncle Remus). BAL 7100; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-57.