New York: Columbia University Press. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1952 (c.1951). 3rd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor wear and slight discoloration to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a good solid clean book; jacket is heavily browned at edges and along spine, scuffed on front panel, large ragged piece missing from top of spine, much smaller piece missing from base of spine, several clumsily-executed internal tape-repairs]. (pen and ink drawings) One of the harder-to-find books by Randolph, described in the jacket blurb as "probably the best known collector of authentic Ozark folklore." The book brings together hundreds of tales from a wide variety of sources: many "were contributed by elderly folk in the more isolated sections of the Ozarks, [while] some have been printed in the country weeklies, and a few find their way into the metropolitan press. Some of the wildest absurdities are exaggerated accounts of the narrator's own adventures, or the exploits of men whom he has known personally. Others are strangely garbled fragments of pioneer history and legend." .

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Bookseller: ReadInk (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 23298
Title: We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks
Author: Randolph, Vance
Illustrator: Glen Rounds
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Fair dj
Edition: 3rd printing
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1952 (c.1951)
Keywords: Humor, Rural America, Tall Tales, Folklore

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