FROM MY HIGHEST HILL: Carolina Mountain Folks: With an Introduction by Anna Shannon Elfenbein and Afterword by Jonathan Morrow
by Dargan, Olive Tilford. Photographs by Bayard Wootten
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- ISBN 10
- 1572330201
- ISBN 13
- 9781572330207
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About This Item
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1998. Reprint. Wraps. Bayard Wootten. Reprint, 1908. Near Fine. 8vo., 247 pp., with black & white illustrations of Wootten's photography. Bound in publishers green, illustrated wraps. Minor edge wear, upper tip slightly bent, otherwise clean and unmarked. A Near Fine copy of a classic North Carolina tale. In From My Highest Hill, a long-overlooked masterpiece of American literature, Olive Tilford Dargan captures with affection and uncanny accuracy the character traits, attitudes, folkways, and dialect of the people who lived in the Great Smoky Mountains during the early years of the twentieth century. First published in 1925 as Highland Annals, the story cycle was extensively revised before it was reissued under its current title in 1941. The second edition included for the first time fifty striking illustrations by photographer Bayard Wootten. - Cover.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25840
- Title
- FROM MY HIGHEST HILL: Carolina Mountain Folks
- Author
- Dargan, Olive Tilford. Photographs by Bayard Wootten
- Illustrator
- Bayard Wootten
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1572330201
- ISBN 13
- 9781572330207
- Publisher
- The University of Tennessee Press
- Place of Publication
- Knoxville
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- highlands, north carolina, country life,
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