texas folklore society frank dobie (2 résultats)

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. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Variant binding with patterned maroon & black cloth with gilt-stamped title, etc., on cover & spine. 201pp. Signed & dated in 1930, by the well-known SW historian Mildred Pickle Mayhall. Contains two contributions & an Introduction by Dobie. TFS #7. Some wear to back cover extremities; vg. Scarce. McV B7.