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Border Ballads
by Reed, James
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0485111446
- ISBN 13
- 9780485111446
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Athlone Press / University of London, 1973. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Blue cloth with gilt, x, 218 pages with b & w drawing plus 8 pages of b & w photos, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition price clipped with faint to minor edge wear now in Mylar. "The Border Ballads are amongst the suprieme manifestations of folk-art. A numer of these stange tales of love & hate and longing, of thieving and killing, of jealousy & the supernatural have been made familiar through their inclusion in anthologies, but though the appeal of the Ballads is, for many, immediate & lasting, they can be fully understood only as the unique record of a medieval-Elizabethan frontier community, remote, precarious yet gifted with high poetic utterance." Contents include: Intro / The Borders and the Ballads / Ballads of the West Marches / Ballards of the Middle Marches (1) / Ballads of the Middle Marches (2) / Ballads of the Supernatural / Bibliography / notes / Glossary / index. Check out the scans. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011071
- Title
- Border Ballads
- Author
- Reed, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0485111446
- ISBN 13
- 9780485111446
- Publisher
- Athlone Press / University of London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Reed, James Border Ballads Athlone Press / University of London 0485111446 -----The scan you see is the book you get. Blue cloth with gilt, x, 218 pages with b & w drawing plus 8 pages of b & w photos, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in V
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Britain;
- Size
- 8vo
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