Folks Do Get Born
CAMPBELL, Marie
Published by Rinehart & Company, New York, 1946
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The book is bright and firm with an indentation across the rear board mirrowing the tear in the dj . The dj has moderate wear/marking and a closed tear across the back panel . See pics Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 3300616
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Title: Folks Do Get Born
Publisher: Rinehart & Company, New York
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Good/Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair / Good
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Folks Do Get Born
Published by
Rinehart & Co, New York, 1946
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC, Clemmons, NC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
1st edition. Hardcover in original binding with dust jacket. 5.75" x 8.25", 245 pp, DJ soiled with 1" chip in top of spine. Not Ex-Lib. Seller Inventory # 101399
FOLKS DO GET BORN
Published by
Rinehart and Company, US, 1946
Used
Hardcover
Signed
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good -. RARE. Signed and inscribed by the author at first free endpaper. Illustrated by Clare Leighton. Beige cloth over boards with gilt particulars in maroon compartment to spine and maroon-debossed decoration to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light shelf wear; sunning to top edge and lower edge; fore edge deckled. Light scattered foxing to decorative endpapers. Boards are lightly foxed with sunning to top edge of rear board and fore edge of front cover; soiling to top edge of rear board; corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight and square. Seller Inventory # 64586
Folk's Do Get Born
Published by
Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Mark Henderson, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. First printing with the R in a circle on the copy right page. The dust jacket has wear to the spine ends. Book. Seller Inventory # 048332
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Folks Do Get Born
Published by
Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Signed without inscription by illustrator Clare Leighton on half-title page. Very good in well worn original jacket with $3.00 price on flap. Ink name stamp on front endpaper, board edges slightly faded, otherwise book is very well preserved, large internal chip from jacket spine, minor loss from corners, and a few cello tape repairs. 1946 Hard Cover. x, 245 pp. About the author: "Marie Campbell, author and prominent folklore scholar, was born in Tamms, Illinois on February 17, 1907. In the summer of 1926, nineteen-year-old Campbell left her home to take a teaching position with the Hindman Settlement School at Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. The following fall she accepted a position with the school at Gander (now Carcassone) in Letcher County, Kentucky. It was at these locations that she was first introduced to the rich oral tradition of Kentucky mountain people. Between 1926 and 1940 Campbell collected stories, many of which were local variations on European folk tales, Irish mythology, and other stories with classical origins. She also participated in local events such as quilting bees, square dances, and church meetings, and even corn-shucking, bean-stringing, or apple-peeling gatherings. What she captured through her notes were stories passed down by family members who for more than a century were largely isolated from outside society. In the 1930s Campbell started publishing articles on folklore while working as a high school English teacher. She received an A.B. in education from Southern Illinois Teachers College in 1932 and an M.A. in English from George Peabody College in 1937. In 1940, Campbell started teaching English, folklore, and creative writing at West Georgia College, Peabody College, Alabama Laboratory School, and Carollton High School in Georgia. During the summers she worked with the Kentucky Crippled Children's Commission making home visits. Campbell published her first collection of southern Appalachian folk tales, Cloud-Walking, in 1942. Two years later in 1944, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts - Fiction to support further research. Over the next decade Campbell produced Folks Do Get Born (1946), an account of African American midwives in rural Georgia, and A House with Stairs (1950), a novel about an African-American family in Alabama during the Civil War. Additionally, she published many articles in magazines and journals such as Southern Literary Messenger, Journal of American Folklore, Southern Folklore Quarterly, American Cookery, Childhood Education, School Activities, and the Tennessee Folklore Bulletin. In 1956 Campbell finished a Ph.D. in folklore and comparative literature from Indiana University. During this time she taught at Glassboro State College in New Jersey, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Campbell published a second collection of southern Appalachian folk tales, Tales of the Cloud Walking Country, in 1958. At the time of her death, Dr. Campbell was an emeritus professor of Folklore and English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst." - University of Kentucky Libraries. Signed by author. Seller Inventory # 2316474