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Lot 172:
Description
This lot comprises three trade paperback volumes from the Foxfire series, edited by Eliot Wigginton and published by Anchor Books, an imprint of Doubleday and Company, Inc. The collection includes Foxfire 2, Foxfire 5, and Foxfire 6, which document Appalachian folk culture, crafts, and oral histories. The cover designs for all three volumes are attributed to Jim McWilliams.
Foxfire 2 (ISBN 0-385-02267-0) features a brown cover with off-white text and a listed price of 4.50 dollars. Contents include ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, and wagon making.
Foxfire 5 (ISBN 0-385-14308-7) features a tan cover with blue text. The subject matter includes ironmaking, blacksmithing, flintlock rifles, and bear hunting. The reverse cover bears a vintage gold foil sticker for Smith and Hardwick Bookstore of Birmingham, Alabama.
Foxfire 6 (ISBN 0-385-15272-8) features a green cover with black text and a listed price of 7.95 dollars. Subjects covered include shoemaking, gourd banjos, wooden locks, and water-powered sawmills.
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