1972 · Garden City, N.Y.
by Wigginton, Eliot
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. Octavo (24 x 16.5 cm.), 384 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The first of the series of twelve Foxfire Books (and a few related spinoffs), which grew out of the original Foxfire magazine, a project started in 1967 and produced by students in rural Georgia with the help of their teacher, Eliot Wigginton. The students researched and recorded the stories of Appalachian oldways. The series of Foxfire Books later gathered and reprinted the magazine articles. A fine copy in publisher's cream colored cloth. In a near fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 8641)