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THE JACK TALES : Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians
by Ward, R.M.; Chase, Richard (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0395066948
- ISBN 13
- 9780395066942
- Seller
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Columbus, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 202pp. Blue cloth spine with gray boards, DJ has light rubbing and wear along edges, reprint of the 1943 edition, glossary, parallels, appendix, b&w illustrations, The Jack Tales : Told by R.M. Ward and his kindred in the Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina and by other decendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896) elsewhere in the Southern mountains, with three tales from Wise County, Virginia, . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. Illus. by Berkeley Williams Jr. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karen Wickliff - Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w200327849
- Title
- THE JACK TALES : Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians
- Author
- Ward, R.M.; Chase, Richard (editor)
- Illustrator
- Berkeley Williams Jr.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0395066948
- ISBN 13
- 9780395066942
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Folklore Genealogy Family Stories Southern Appalachia Mountain Country North Carolina Jack
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genealogy; American History; Folklore;
Terms of Sale
Karen Wickliff - Books
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About the Seller
Karen Wickliff - Books
Biblio member since 2005
Columbus, Ohio
About Karen Wickliff - Books
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...