Pray Tell, Private Hell by Steven Bartel

Softcover in good condition. First edition, first printing. Bottom pages by spine have been wet and are wavy but don't bother the text.

Title: Pray Tell, Private Hell

Author Name: Bartel, Steven

Edition: 1st Edition

ISBN Number: 0979423600

ISBN-13: 9780979423604

Location Published: Hellbound Press: 2007

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good

Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry, Civil War History

Seller ID: 024000

Price: $10.00

When Music Sings on the Wind by Audrey Hart Winkler

Softcover. Wynaud Press, 1987. One of 500 copies. In near fine condition. Poetry.

Title: When Music Sings on the Wind

Author Name: Audrey Hart Winkler

ISBN Number: 0960331220

ISBN-13: 9780960331222

Illustrator: Orr, Hazel (illustrator)

Location Published: Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A., Wynaud Press: 1987

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry

Seller ID: 009239

Keywords: fiction general

Price: $8.00

Have You Heard the Cricket Song by Wintson O Abbott

Small hardcover. Inspiration House, eighth printing, 1979. In very good condition, with a good DJ (tear in upper right corner). Signed by both the author and illustrator! Search for the meaning of life.

Title: Have You Heard the Cricket Song

Author Name: Abbott, Winston O.

ISBN Number: 0918114020

ISBN-13: 9780918114020

Location Published: South Windsor, CT, U.S.A., Inspiration House Publishers: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry

Seller ID: 006544

Keywords: inspiration body mind spirit personal growth

Price: $20.00

A Book of Vulgar Verse by A Gentleman about Town

Hardcover in very good condition. An anthology of sailor's songs, cowboy songs, and more.

Title: A Book of Vulgar Verse

Author Name: A Gentleman about Town

ISBN Number: 089009411x

ISBN-13: 9780890094112

Location Published: Checkerbooks

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry

Seller ID: 023649

Price: $15.00

Ideals Friendship Vol. 40 No. 4 April, 1983

Softcover. Very good condition. Norman Rockwell picture on cover. Full of photographs and poetry about friendship.

Title: Ideals Friendship Vol. 40 No. 4 April, 1983

ISBN Number: 0824910192

ISBN-13: 9780824910198

Location Published: Ideals: 1983

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry

Seller ID: 018531

Keywords: friendship poetry

Price: $10.00

Ellipsis Literature and Art Spring 2000 Volume 36

Trade paperback. Near fine condition, cover edgewear. Poetry, stories and visual art.

Title: Ellipsis Literature and Art Spring 2000 Volume 36

Location Published: Westminister College: 2000

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry

Seller ID: 020444

Keywords: poetry visual arts

Price: $15.00

Bridal Bouquet: Penhaligon's Scented Treasury of Verse and Prose

Hardcover in slipcase, no DJ. Near fine condition. Verse and prose with a lovely fragrance to make the experience more enjoyable.

Title: Bridal Bouquet: Penhaligon's Scented Treasury of Verse and Prose

Edition: First Edition.

ISBN Number: 0517585073

ISBN-13: 9780517585078

Location Published: New York, New York, U.S.A., Harmony Books: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Poetry

Seller ID: 018569

Keywords: marriage customs rites wedding etiquette

Price: $15.00

Ring-Tailed Roarers Tall Tales of the American Frontier 1830-60 by V L O Chittick

Hardcover, no DJ, ex-library. Good condition, minor library markings, both ends of spine and corners bumped, boards have lost some cloth on edges, front joint is beginning to separate, rear hinges is beginning to separate. Text and illustration are bright and clean. Original copyright 1941, this is the third printing. David Crockett, Whoppin' Tall Tales, Frontier Mishaps, B'ars and Panters, Ring-Taled Roarers, Two-Fisted Fights, Mississippi Steamboatin', Horse and Horse, Simon Suggs, Mike Fink. The wood engravings add to the tall tales!

Title: Ring-Tailed Roarers Tall Tales of the American Frontier 1830-60

Author Name: V L O Chittick

Illustrator: Lloyd J Reynolds

Location Published: Caxton Printers: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018264

Keywords: folklore folk lore tall tales

Price: $15.00

The Tumbleweed Collection by Tumbleweed Smith

Softcover. Near fine condition. Signed by author on half-title page. Stories and lore of Texas. 56 pages.

Title: The Tumbleweed Collection

Author Name: Tumbleweed Smith

Edition: First Edition.

Location Published: Orange House Productions: 1976

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018288

Keywords: tall tales folk lore folklore

Price: $20.00

It Always Rains After a Dry Spell by Marshall Trimble

Trade paperback. Near fine condition. Tall tales and western lore with vibrant illustrations. Settlers, miners, cowboys and a few politicians of the southwest.

Title: It Always Rains After a Dry Spell

Author Name: Trimble, Marshall

ISBN Number: 0918080673

ISBN-13: 9780918080677

Location Published: Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., Treasure Chest Pubns: 1992

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018261

Keywords: tall tales folk western humor

Price: $15.00

Tall Tales Tales of the West Volume 13 by Rick Steber

Trade paperback. Very good condition, some edgewear. If this guy was Pinocchio, his nose would be real long. Outlandish stories with very nice illustrations.

Title: Tall Tales Tales of the West Volume 13

Author Name: Rick Steber

ISBN Number: 0945134134

ISBN-13: 9780945134138

Illustrator: Don Gray

Location Published: Bonanza: 1997

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018287

Keywords: tall tales folk lore folklore

Price: $10.00

From Hell to Breakfast Texas Folk-Lore Society Publication Number XIX by Mody C Boatright, Donald Day

Hardcover, no DJ, now in mylar. Very good condition, minor bumping to corners and spine ends, light toning on endpapers. Some tales included: Negro Baptizings by Ruby Terrill Lomas, Tale of the Two Companions by J Frank Dobie, Legend of Tengo Frio Bird by Henry Yelvington, Indian Sign on the Spaniard's Cattle by Hortense Warner Ward, and Ear Marks by Hortense Warner Ward, Panther Yarns by Dee Woods, Moron Jokes by Dunny Sims, The Low Down on Jim Bowie by Edward S Sears, and more.

Title: From Hell to Breakfast Texas Folk-Lore Society Publication Number XIX

Author Name: Mody C Boatright, Donald Day

Edition: First Edition.

Location Published: Texas Folk-lore Society: 1944

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018266

Keywords: folk lore folklore tall tales

Price: $50.00

Supernatural Hawaii by Margaret Stone

Softcover. Near fine condition. Actual mysteries, blessings, curses, rituals, legends. 38 pages. Under the Spell, the Kahuna, Unusual Customes (then and now), Aumakua, Stories: Personal and Heresay, The Gods of Hawaii, Religion and Kapus, Dream Lore, Portents, Bones and Caves, What Really Happened to Captain Cook's Body?

Title: Supernatural Hawaii

Author Name: Margaret Stone

Location Published: Aloha Graphics and Sales: 1979

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018641

Keywords: hawaii supernatural legends

Price: $10.00

Texas and Southwestern Lore Texas Folk-Lore Society Number VI by J Frank Dobie

Hardcover, no DJ, now in mylar. Original copyright 1927, this is the second printing. Very good condition, front cover has a small ink line and some color lightened in a spot the size of a dime, outside page edges toning and have some foxing, front and rear endpapers toning. Interior is clean and bright. Some of the stories: Folk-Lore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero by Jovita Gonzales, Lore of the Llana Estacado by J Evetts Haley, The Devil's Grotto by Mody C Boatright, Myths of the Teja Indians by Mattie Austin Hatcher, The Ballad of "Davy Crockett" by Julia Beazley, "Annie Breen from Old Kaintuck" by George E. Hastings, and more!

Title: Texas and Southwestern Lore Texas Folk-Lore Society Number VI

Author Name: J Frank Dobie

Location Published: Texas Folk-lore Society: 1934

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018270

Keywords: folklore folk lore tall tales

Price: $75.00

Spur-of-the-Cock Texas Folk-Lore Society Number XI by J Frank Dobie

Hardcover, no DJ, now in mylar. Very good condition, minor bumping to corners and spine ends, minor sun darkening of spine and outside page edges, some spotting on spine. Interior is clean and bright. The Spur-of-the-Cock by Hugh M Taylor, El Nino Perdido by Mary R Van Stone and E R Sims, Folk Names of Texas Cacti by David Hall, Cats and the Occult by Martha Emmons, Old-Time Negro Proverbs by J. Mason Brewer.

Title: Spur-of-the-Cock Texas Folk-Lore Society Number XI

Author Name: J Frank Dobie

Edition: First Edition.

Location Published: Texas Folk-lore Society: 1933

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018268

Keywords: folklore folk lore tall tales

Price: $50.00

Foller De Drinkin' Gou'd Texas Folk-Lore Society Publication Number VII by J Frank Dobie

Hardcover, no DJ, in mylar. Very good condition, top of spine bumped, top outside page edges sun darkened and have minor spotting, a little piece of title page is missing at spine . Text and illustrations are clean and bright. Some stories included: Folk-Lore Relating to Texas Birds by John K Strecker, Tall Tales for the Tenderfeet by A W Penn, Fishback Yarns from the Sulphurs by J M Deaver, Paul Bunyan: Oil Man by John Lee Brooks, Pioneer Folk Tales by Mary Jourdan Atkingson and J Frank Dobie, Some Negro Folk-Songs of Texas by Mary Virginia Bates, How Mr. Polecat Got His Scent by Kate Stoner O'Connor, More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk by J Frank Dobie, and more!

Title: Foller De Drinkin' Gou'd Texas Folk-Lore Society Publication Number VII

Author Name: J Frank Dobie

Edition: First Edition.

Location Published: Texas Folk-lore Society: 1928

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018269

Keywords: folklore folk lore tall tales

Price: $50.00

Of the Night Wind's Telling Legends from the Valley of Mexico by E Adams Davis

Hardcover. Near fine, small chip on bottom of front board, light soiling on top of book pages. DJ is good, has some chips and small ears and shows edgewear. Indian myths, Spanish tales, and more. Mexican folktales.

Title: Of the Night Wind's Telling Legends from the Valley of Mexico

Author Name: E Adams Davis

Edition: First Edition.

Location Published: University of Oklahoma: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 019793

Keywords: folk tales myths legends

Price: $30.00

Folklore on the American Land by Duncan Emrich

Oversized hardcover, ex-library. Very good condition, minor library marking, glue markings on front and back endpapers. DJ is good, shows glue stains, bottom of spine is turned in, in mylar cover. 18 chapters on everything from children's rhymes to epitaphs ("Here snug in grave my wife doth lie, Now she's at rest, and so am I!"). Another quote: "Him? He's so stingy he'd chase a mouse to hell for a punkin seed." 707 pages.

Title: Folklore on the American Land

Author Name: Duncan Emrich

Location Published: Little Brown & Co: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Americana - Folk Lore, Tall Tales

Seller ID: 018262

Keywords: folklore folk lore tall tales

Price: $25.00