Mody Editors (39 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good condition. Ex-lib. with 4 stamps, 2 stickers and card. Light foxing to top page edges. Dust jacket in very good condition, in plastic library wrapper with tape to top and bottom. Inside is all clean and bright with no writing or folds of any kind. A collection of twenty-nine essays saluting storytellers from Texas who spun tale tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, superstitions and folk medicine, among others. 298 pages with index and contributors.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover 1941, No.17 edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. A few words posted to margins. Covers and text in good condition. {162 pages}.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 274 pp.

x-lib. with all attendant defects o/w a good clean working copy Cloth.

Cloth over Board. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some light rubbing and edgewear. Text has yellowed but remains tight in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Book has shelf wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Clean unmarked book. NOT a former library book. NO writing or highlighting. Dust jacket protected with a removable mylar cover. Texas Folklore Society Publication XXXII.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good / with Protective Cover. Some rubbing and edgewear, DJ has yellowed moderately, spine has bleaching and there is some tearing and chipping. Text has yellowed but remains tight in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None Stated. A collection of twenty-nine essays saluting storytellers from Texas who spun tale tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, superstitions and folk medicine, among others. Mild edge wear to the DJ. A very good copy.…

Hardcover. xv, 356p., illus., corners bumped, remainder mark on bottom edge of textblock, else very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj with a sunned spine panel and the remains of a label on the spine panel. Texas Folklore Society Publication XXVI. Includes sections on Native American, Mexican, and African American folklore. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; 169 clean, unmarked pages.

Second printing of the 1966 facsimile edition (originally published 1939). [2], i-iv, 1-186 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Undecorated light gray dust wrapper with faint soiling to panels. Brown cloth with vibrant gilt stamped lettering. Text includes: "Folk-Lore and Tradition in a Growing Society" by Radoslav A. Tsanoff; "Rose and His Story of the Alamo" divided into three essays by J. Frank Dobie, W.P. Zuber, and R.B. Blake; "Inventing Stories About the Alamo" by W.P. Zuber to Charlie Jeffries; "How Jim Bowie Died" by Edward G. Rohrbough; "Anecdotes as Side Lights to Texas History" by Marcelle Lively Hamer; "There's a Geography of Humorous Anecdotes" by Charles F. Arrowood; "Folk Characters of the Sheep Industry" by Winnifred Kupper; "The Ghost Sheep Dog" by Merrill Bishop; "The Pasta and the Serpent" by Dan Storm; "The Mexican Folk Version of King Midas" by W.A. Whatley; "Tortilla Making" by Ruth Dodson; "Navajo Sketches" by Yanh-na-bah; and "The Roadrunner in Fact and Folk-Lore" by J. Frank Dobie. Several small faint brown stains upon lower fore-edge; interior leaves are bright and clean. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. ISBN 087074173X.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Texas Folklore Society Publication XXVI. Jose Cisneros (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed vi+168pp, index, dj nice Texas Folklore Society Publication XXI, "Cowboys Comedians And The Horseback Humorists" by Paul Patterson, "Work And Play Of A Border Ranch" by R. Gonzales, others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed vi+274pp, frontis, index, dj nice McVicker B-134 Texas Folklore Society Publication XXXI, "Two Treasure Tales" by J.F.Dobie, "The Texas Rangers In Aberdeenshire" by Ken Goldstein, "The Cowboy In The British West Indies" by Roger Abraham, others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed x+169pp, dj nice McVicker B-107 C-430 Texas Folklore Society Publication XXVIII, "Mapstones And Hydrophobia Skunks" by J. Frank Dobie, "Reminiscences Of A Texas Pioneer" by J.D. Brantley, others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition. Austin:: Texas Folk-Lore Society , 1943. A square, tight copy with light cover soil. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. With a few illlustrations and some musical notation. Contains nearly 35 contributions, including 3 on Davy Crocket; two Negro folk tales; NEGRO NICKNAMES (by Ruby Terrill Lomax); 10 ghost stories from Texas College for Women; Rope-Jumping Rhymes; 5 anecdotes about lawyers; WELL DONE, LIAR (by Charles F. Arrowood); AT THE BRANDING ROUNDUP (by Frank Goodwyn); THE LAST HERD OF LONGHORNS (by L. D. Bertillion); etc. Also in this volume are two contributions by J. Frank Dobie, a foreword, TWENTY YEARS AN EDITOR; and A BUFFALO HUNTER AND HIS SONG. Texas Folk-Lore Society Publications, No 18, J. Frank Dobie, General Editor. Bound in the original beige cloth, lettered in black on the spine and front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No jacket. 8vo. xv, 235pp.…

First Edition. hardcover. 8vo. 274pp. Tight. No names or other markings. Texas Folklore Society Publication III. Nice d/j with small, closed edgetear, else Fine in Near Fine D/J in jacket protector.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. 8vo, 261 pp. Spine slightly cocked, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, covers rubbed, a few specks to front cover and small nick to bottom edge of front cover, page edges tanned, previous owner name stamp, binding a bit tender where spine is creased.…

Condition: Fine. 1962, 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition.

cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed 203pp, fld charts, cloth nice 6-Guns #231 Includes a chapter on outlaws.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1937 printing. Very Good. 8vo., 348 pp. Bound in publishers green cloth. Spine and top edge of front cover sun faded, previous gift inscription on front end paper, otherwise clean and unmarked. Volume of popular folklore of Texas, including tales about the origins of various cities and towns, personal anecdotes, songs, superstitions and other miscellaneous legends.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Texas Folklore Society Publication XXXII. Ranges from straight folk tales to a Folksong and Folksong Scholarship Symposium by "five men eminent in the field of folk music". Also, essays: on "Freud's Myth of the Primal Horde"; on the folklore of the South and racial discrimination; on the social customs of which O. Henry wrote in his Texas stories; and on different versions of the origin and nature of woman (plus on those of Texas stream names). 274 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Texas Folklore Society Publication XXXII. Ranges from straight folk tales to a Folksong and Folksong Scholarship Symposium by "five men eminent in the field of folk music". Also, essays: on "Freud's Myth of the Primal Horde"; on the folklore of the South and racial discrimination; on the social customs of which O. Henry wrote in his Texas stories; and on different versions of the origin and nature of woman (plus on those of Texas stream names). 274 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has shelf and edge wear. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library hardcover without dust jacket, from University of London, in good condition. Rear board is scored. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block and page edges are tanned. Within, usual array of plates, labels and stamps noted. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 356 pages. Index. This book is from the library of Harry E. Chrisman, a noted western historian and writer. Dust jacket has one large chip at top left hand side of front panel, 2" x 2". Very good in dust jacket. (116).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Texas Folk-Lore Society Publications Number XIV. Inscribed by Boatright, and H. Bailey Carroll. Spine toned so as to be unreadable.