Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living
by Eliot Wigginton (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/VG- (Very Good Minus)
- ISBN 10
- 0385022670
- ISBN 13
- 9780385022675
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1973. BCE (Book Club Edition) 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/VG- (Very Good Minus). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tan cloth with trace wear and lightly bumped spine ends. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has light edgewear and rubbing, and slightly sunned spine; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. Many b/w photos and drawings. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 410 pp.
Synopsis
Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living The "Foxfire" books began as a student-produced magazine in 1966 that contains stories and interviews from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community. The books are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine , edited and published by Eliot Wigginton.
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- Seller
- Albion Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 001913
- Title
- Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living
- Author
- Eliot Wigginton (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BCE (Book Club Edition) 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385022670
- ISBN 13
- 9780385022675
- Publisher
- Anchor Press / Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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