New England Legends and Folklore
by Samuel Adams Drake; Harry Hansen (ed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0803849982
- ISBN 13
- 9780803849983
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hastings House, November 1967. Hardcover. Third printing, October 1972. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Text block pristine. Gift inscription to FFEP. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows age toning and light edgewear with two quarter-inch tears at spine head. Nor from a library. No remainder mark. 192 pages. Numerous black & white photos. Full title: New England Legends and Folklore; Based on writings by Samuel Adams Drake and Others, and Illustrated with Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. Edited, with a Foreword, by Harry Hansen. "Adapted, with additions, from A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore, by Samuel Adams Drake,... 1884."
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002871
- Title
- New England Legends and Folklore
- Author
- Samuel Adams Drake; Harry Hansen (ed)
- Illustrator
- Samuel Chamberlain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0803849982
- ISBN 13
- 9780803849983
- Publisher
- Hastings House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- November 1967
- Keywords
- folklore, folk tales, legends, myths, poetry, prose, Massachusetts, New England
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Fiction; Britain; Poetry; Illustrated Books;
- Size
- 8vo
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