Edited B a Botkin (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint Pictures on request.

Mass Market Paperback. Reprint edition. Tight sound copy in good condition with spine creasing, some browning to edges of interior pages, owner's name blacked out on top edge and edge wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Later Edition.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Black sunned spine, cover bright. Interior clean and unmarked. Previous owner's name plate at front endpaper. African American Studies; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Treasury of American Folklore, edited by B. A. Botkin, Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Wings Books, 1944. First edition, first printing with full number line. Book: Very Good; Binding is tight and sound. Boards show light edgewear only, with no fraying. Text block exhibits edge toning consistent with age, while interior pages remain clean and unmarked. A slight S-shaped warp to the text block is present, typical of thicker wartime-era paper stock; binding remains secure and functional.Gilt/blue spine lettering strong and unfaded. Dust Jacket: Very Good. Original dust jacket is bright and well-preserved, showing only light edgewear and minor handling wear. No chips or tears. Not price-clipped.(see photos) A Treasury of American Folklore is a landmark anthology preserving the oral traditions, legends, ballads, tall tales, and regional storytelling of the United States. Edited by folklorist B. A. Botkin and introduced by Carl Sandburg, the volume captures the voices of America's diverse communities, blending humor, history, and cultural memory in a foundational reference work. Printing identification note: Wings Books editions do not use traditional number lines; this copy appears to be a mass-market hardcover reprint rather than the original 1948 Knopf first edition. Notable Features: Broad thematic coverage: ghost stories, witch tales, tall tales, ballads, pranks, animal stories, and frontier humor. Illustrated endpapers and decorative design typical of Wings Books editions. Popular general-interest folklore collection rather than an academic text.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Yellow cloth with black spine lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; almost no edge wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text clean, unmarked. DJ is GOOD ; edges worn, tears at upper spine, rubbed, some writing, spine sunned. Humor. Stax.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 340pp, some music, good. *Ballads of sailors, miners, hoboes, slaves, lumberjacks, etc. BALLADS FOLK SONGS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. Near Fine to Fine. Revised Edition. Nice copy. Unmarked but for neat gift inscription on fep. Clean, tight and square. Price clipped jacket is bright and fresh. The stories, legends, tall tales, tradotopms. ba;;ads and songs of the people of the great plains and far west. 613 pages. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 618pp; Indexes. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. No library markings. Previous owner's name written inside front cover, otherwise Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Thick octavo. xx, 625pp. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Owner's address label partially peeled off on front fly, near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with short nicks and tears on edges.

Tan Boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint; (c) 1960. Tan Boards. Very Fine/Fine. Reprint; (c) 1960. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 625 pages; 25 p. index; 31 pages of Notes, citing numerous sources; from the dj: "The whole," says Mr. Botkin in his introduction, "constitutes a collective saga of the human side of the Civil War, its typical experinces, heroes, traditions, myths, legends, fables, foibles, images, and symbols reflecting the American imagination at work (in a mingling of fact and fantasy) on the stuff of our most American war.". Chappell, Warren (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Revised Edition. 618 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows extensive wear and rips along the front and back. Small stains on top, fore and bottom edges. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. In their own fascinating anecotes and folk tales former Negro slaves tell what slavery and emancipation meant to each of them. Index. List of Informants and Interviewsers. 298pp. Ten pages underlinnings. Pictorial soft cover with title and title on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. hardcover, octavo, first edition, 1951, foreword by Bernard DeVoto 806 pages ,includes index of authors, titles, first lines, subject, names and places, very good condition in a fair dust jacket, shows $4.00 price on jacket flap, tears, chipping and edgewear to jacket, however illustrations on jacket remain intact, book contains stories, ballads and traditions of the Old West.…

Hardcover. 8vo., 620 pp. Lacking the dust jacket. A collection of 500 stories and 30 songs of the Mississippi River, compiled by Botkin, curator of the Archive of American Folk-song at the Library of Congress [1942-45] and president of the American Folklore Society. Very Good with some wear and rubbing to the boards and some age toning to the text block.…

with dustjacket, hardcover. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsm4to; 618 pages; acceptable hardcover with dustjacket; spine starting and slanting; few nicks and chips to edges boards, tips, spine heaqd and heal; foxing to edges; tanning pages; foxing to few pages; slight stain face dustjacket; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1954. Stated first edition, 1954. Red cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has a clipped corner to the front flap, rubbing to the extremities with some very minor surface chips, very little paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Texas Edition. BP2 - A Texas edition hardcover book SIGNED by B.A. Botkin on the front free endpaper in very good condition that has some bumped corners and dents, light cover edgewear, scattered scratches, rubbing and scuffing on the cover, some light stains on the page edges, tanning and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. This limited edition of A Treasury of Southern Folklore is made especially for The State of Texas. A Treasury of Southern Folklore, Stories, ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South, With a Foreword by Douglas Southall Freeman. 8.75"x5.75", 776 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. xxvii. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines of Songs. Index of Subjects and Names. 932pp. Maroon cloth boards with slightly rubbed gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on front board. Small bookplate on f.e.p. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 297pp. Spine with a few foxed spots and a perforation on the bottom page edges causing a small chips in the bottom margins of five or six leaves, an otherwise bright, very good copy, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Octavo. xxvii, 932pp. Gutter before title cracked, rear hinge starting, spine ends and corners chipped and bumped, good only in a good only edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with some loss along the extremities. Contributions by Horatio Alger, Samuel L. Clemens, Washington Irving, Eli Perkins, Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman, and more.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Signed by Constance M. Rourke (noted American writer). on the first page. 297 pages. "In lyric, epic, idyllic or satriic mood the twenty-nine contribuotrs fo Folk-Say IV give fresh and vivid handling to the theme of the relation of the individual to environment-of the worker to the soil, of the artist to his horizons." dj shows handling and soiling (now in mylar protector). Contributions by Mary Austin, Solon R. Barber, E. M. BNerry, Moe Bragin, Oxcar Brynes, Erskine Caldwell, Pat V. Morrissette, Margaret Pond, Jean Thomas, Paul Horgan and others. ; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 ".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. 286pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Owner name on the front free endpaper, page toning, and some edgewear thus very good in a good only dust jacket with internal tape repairs, shallow chips, and creasing. "In their own fascinating anecdotes and folk tales, former Negro slaves tell what slavery and emancipation meant to each of them.". …

Bonanza Books. 1965. Revised Edition. Hardback with DW. Large 8vo. 618 pages. Illustration to title page. Head and tail of spine slightly crumpled o/w a lovely clean copy in a sunned, marked wrapper which has been internally repaired with tape and has small tears and chips to edges and has small worn patches to rear panel.…