A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People
by BOTKIN, B. A. (editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. A compendium of all manner of American folk songs, stories, ballads and traditions of the people. With snippets from famous writings, musical notations and excerpts of dialogue. The stories are organized loosely by topics, such as "Pseudo Bad Men," "Liars," "Ballads and Songs," etc. Edited by B. A. Botkin, with a foreword by Carl Sandburg. --- In red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped dragon/horse image to cover, titling in gilt to spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with near-complete loss of spine titling, prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, else a sturdy, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxvii, 932 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86367
- Title
- A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People
- Author
- BOTKIN, B. A. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American Society, Life in the US;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...