first edition Hardcover
1929 · London/New York/Toronto
by MacKaye, Percy
London/New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co.. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. [front hinge cracked but holding, bottom corners lightly bumped and slightly split, otherwise only minimally shelfworn; jacket edgeworn, faded at spine, small tears at several corners, a little paper loss at top of spine and along rear hinge and rear foldover]. (silhouette drawings) Anecdotal folk tales of Eastern Kentucky. "Out of the mysterious 'creek world' of the Appalachians where Americans who speak an English as old as Shakespeare's live a life as vital as Broadway's yet strange as a mediaeval ballad, [the author] has poured the magic of a new literary creation. By the eldritch thrill of story, the infectious humor of character and situation, and the haunting language and significance of the book, the reader will be swept into this strangely entralling and lyric world." . (Inventory #: 23139)