Editore: Austin, TX: Texas Folk-Lore Society [Texas Folklore Society], 1939., 1939
Da: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). vi, 187 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with some toning and light soiling; mild stain near spine heel with slender fraying at ends. Text block edges and endpapers toned. Past owner's ink signature at top of front free endpaper; eight-line ink inscription dated July 1940 and signed "Ruby" (likely Ruby Wells who illustrated with Winnifred Kupper essay "Folk Studies of the Sheep Industry") ink check mark on "Contents" page iii; some light foxing and soiling to interior leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. Contributions by Radoslav A. Tsanoff, J. Frank Dobie, W.P. Zuber [William Physick Zuber], R.B. Blake, Edward G. Rohrbough, Marcelle Lively Hamer, Charles F. Arrowood, Winnifred Kupper, Merrill Bishop, Dan Storm, W.A. Whatley, Ruth Dodson, and Yanh-Na-Bah.