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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 Wigginton, Eliot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385022670
- ISBN 13
- 9780385022675
- Seller
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Maysville, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. 410 pp. Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York (1973). First Edition. Second Printing per Number Line. No Dust Jacket. Block and pages are remarkably clean, bright, and unmarked. Pages are crisp and binding is tight. Cloth boards are straight and square. Minor .5-inch wax or grease spot on rear board. Very Good+ to Near Fine. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.
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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- BookRanger
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR-0318-501
- Title
- Foxfire 2
- Author
- Wigginton, Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Sewn binding is square and tight. Block and pages are clean and unmarked. Book appears to be mostly unread.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385022670
- ISBN 13
- 9780385022675
- Publisher
- Anchor/ Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Non-Fiction. Appalachia. Georgia. Customs. Folklore.
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