1981, ISBN: 0817300570

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[EAN: 9780817300579], [PU: University, AL [Tuscaloosa, AL]: The University of Alabama Press, 1981.], TRADITIONAL TALE STORY SHORT STORIES FOLKLORE FOLKTALE HUMOR WIT COMEDY COMIC ANECDOTE… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780817300579], [PU: University, AL [Tuscaloosa, AL]: The University of Alabama Press, 1981.], TRADITIONAL TALE STORY SHORT STORIES FOLKLORE FOLKTALE HUMOR WIT COMEDY COMIC ANECDOTES ANECDOTAL SOCIAL LIFE CUSTOM AMERICAN SOUTH SOUTHERN LITERATURE LITERARY FICTION FICTIONAL ANTEBELLUM CIVIL WAR SOCIETY CIVILIZATION NINETEENTH 19TH CENTURY AMERICANA-ALABAMA, Jacket, First edition thus (not stated). xiv, 217 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Tan dust jacket lightly soiled and foxed. Brown cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board. Light foxing to top edge; non-authorial page-length Christmas 1982 ink gift inscirption on front pastedown but mostly hidden underneath dj's front flap; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good copy in a very good+ dust jacket. With frontispiece portrait of John Gorman Barr plus 22 other b/w illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Appendix (with two stories by J.J. Hooper - Johnson Jones Hooper), and Notes. Features fourteen humorous Alabama stories by John Gorman Barr titled: "Salted Him; or, An Auctioneer Doing All the Bidding," "Old Charley and the President's Veto," Old Charley and His Impromptu Ride," "A Hand-Around Supper in Alabama," "A Steamboat Captain's Love Adventure," "How Tom Croghan Carved the Turkey," "Spiritualism Explained," "Piscatory Reflections and Reminiscences," "New York Drummer's Ride to Greensboro," "Jemmy Owen's Fifty Dollar Note; or, 'Moind Whay Ye Say,'" "John Bealle's Accident - or, How the Widow Dudu Treated Insanity," "Relief for Ireland! or, John Brown's Bad Luck With His Pickled Beef," "A Lively Village; or, Brisk Speculation in a New Commodity," and "Misplaced Confidence; or, Bilking a Boniface!" ISBN 0817300570<

ISBN: 0817300570

[EAN: 9780817300579], Used, [PU: Univ of Alabama Pr (T)], Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket.

1982, ISBN: 9780817300579

Hard cover, Acceptable, Acceptable condition. Book Good. No dust jacket., [PU: University of Alabama Press]