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Negro Folktales in Michigan
by Dorson, Richard M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Dearborn, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Harvard University Press, 1956-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Hardcover, First Edition 1956 Harvard University Press 245 pages. Very Good, in a Good+ DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to black cloth spine with gilt titles over off white patterned paper boards. Moderate shelf/edge wear with edge wrinkling to unclipped DJ - now in mylar. Previous owner signed bookplate on inside front cover. All pages are bright, clean and crisp with no toning. The first book of Negro folklore from the North. All the tales were gathered in Michigan. But the storytellers came to Michigan from every state in the South. 13 chapters: The Community and the Storytellers, The Art of Negro Storytelling, Animal and Bird Stories, Old Marster and John, Colored Man, Horrors, Hoodoos and Two-heads, Spirits and Hants, Witches and Wonders, The Lord and the Devil, Preachers, Liars and Irishmen and Fairy Tales. Followed by a bibliography and notes, index of informants, motifs and tale types. 165 tales from 69 storytellers. OCLC-530478. Very Scarce. LOC SSS-24
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- Bookseller
- Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160808013
- Title
- Negro Folktales in Michigan
- Author
- Dorson, Richard M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Date Published
- 1956-01-01
- Keywords
- Folktales, Black Studies, Local History
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About the Seller
Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
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Dearborn, Michigan
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- LOC
- Library of Congress
- Bookplate
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- Crisp
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