Published by Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1943
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hilda Ogburn (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1943. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket, priced at $2.50. 8vo., 206 pp., with black & white images. Bound in publishers green cloth with green illustrated dust jacket. Jacket spine is darkened, with some minor toning at edges. Binding is tight, interior unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. A SCARCE bit of NC folk tales. From NYT: DURING the heyday of the WPA the literary arm of that organization combed North Carolina for folklore. From the sounds of the Atlantic to the coves of the Great Smokies, the local raconteurs, white and colored, seem to have been obliging.