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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings
by Brunvand, Jan Harold
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition (ex-library)
- ISBN 10
- 0393951693
- ISBN 13
- 9780393951691
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About This Item
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition (ex-library). Fifth Impression or later. Size: Small Octavo. 208 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The groundbreaking book that launched America's urban legend obsession! Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends ??including "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs" and provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; United States; 20th century; ISBN: 0393951693. ISBN/EAN: 9780393951691. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8589. . 9780393951691
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- Seller
- Great Southern Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 8589
- Title
- The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings
- Author
- Brunvand, Jan Harold
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition (ex-library)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0393951693
- ISBN 13
- 9780393951691
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Urban folklore, Legends, Legends, Urban legends, Folklore urbain, Légendes, Légendes, america Myths, Legends & Folklore; United States; 20th century; ISBN: 0393951693 EAN: 9780393951691 Brunvand, Jan Harold The Vanishing Hitchh
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