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Cover corner tips bumped, some rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Gilt lettering on spine has faded; gilt lettering, medallion and rulled edge on front cover remain bright. Former owners' names written in ink at top of first free fly leaf; each struck out with single thin line. There is no date the title page with 1884 on the copyright page. Interior pages clean and not marred by notes or highlighting; and the spine is undamaged and binding remains tight. This is not an ex-library book, but was donated to the Friends of the Eugene, Oregon, Public Library. We are selling the book to help support library programs for children and adults. Thank you.

This is a first edition printing - the author's desk copy (noted by the author on the first flyleaf and top of title page. The author has made notations throughout the book - in pencil. This volume is one of three which grew out of a study of Black culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. This book deals with certain major aspects of dialect, folk songs, and folklore. The section on dialect attempts to describe the Gullah dialect traits. Condition problems: Book is cocked. Cover corner tips are slightly bumped. Shelf wear on top and bottom of spine. Binding beginning to separate but remains tight.

This is the second edition of Katharine Berry Judson's collection of the myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest — the Klamath, Nez Percé, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes—was first published in 1910. Book corner tips slightly rubbed and bent; top and bottom of spine rubbed; upper edges of pages 77 and 79 are tattered, but with no loss of text. "No. 30" stamped on first paste-down page; Christmas gift inscription dated 1913 on first free fly leaf. Binding tight. All 50 historic photographs of individuals, families, and landscapes remain in place.