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SOLD2023 - Upstate, Downstate - Folk Stories of the Middle Atlantic States by M. Jagendorf, Illus. by Howard Simon 1949 Second Printing Hardback

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SYNOPSIS:  299 pages. Here are stories about enchanted fish, friendly giants, daring hunters, trained mosquitoes, evil pirates; about ordinary sailors and farmers and millers, and stories about characters from history; stories about people and stories about phantoms and ghosts. They emanate from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, as follows in Table of Contents, broken down by state:

New York: 
Mighty Mose, the Bowery B'hoy 
The Devil and the Good Book
The tale of Anthony's nose
The phantom painter in the steeple
In Coney Island by the Sea
A baker's dozen
Pig in the poke
Adirondack skeeters
Sam Patch, the jumpin' man
Maiden Lane in the golden days
Canawlers on the E-ri-ee Canal
Lady Morris in her mansion
A new way of tamin' wolves
The witch tree of the North Country

New Jersey: 
Hi-ho, the mosquitoes of New Jersey!
The strange trial
Jonas and the sturgeon
The foe in the dark
The young witch-horse
The treasure under the tree
The seven sisters
The gunsmith and the maiden
Pirate Yan Yost of Communipaw
The saga of Stretch Garrison
Bees in the bonnets in New Jersey
The best Devil in the land

Delaware: 
Herman and his horse
The fiddler of Fiddler's Bridge
Fiery-tempered Jake
The enemy in the night
Dutch Peter and the fortunetelling tailor
Fearless John and the giant monster
The ghost of Samuel Chew
Arnsy Maull, the conjure man

Pennsylvania: 
Joe Magerack, the steel-mill man
True love in the Blue Mountains
Along the Monongahela
The hex and the oxen
Land of wonders
Young John
A trickster tricks the Devil
The wolf-bride
Big Ghost, Little Ghost--who's scared of a ghost?
The good witch-doctor in the mountains
Chug-chug along the O-hi-o
The great sacrifice
The haunted mine

Washington and Maryland:
Three little tales of Washington
Clever Jacob Gibson
A merry tale of Rich Neck Farm
Romance at Tulip Hill
Cookus, Bopple, and Yeakle
The white mule ghost
God's well
Tell a tale of Ara Spence
The spider in the wall
Adventure in Plaindealing
The blue dog

Publisher: The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York.

Format: Hardback. No dust jacket. EX LIB. Stated Second Printing, 1949. Foreword by Henry W. Shoemaker.

Condition: Acceptable as a reading copy. Associated Ex Lib markings and card jacket and checkout stub affixed to inside front flyleaf pages. Blue cloth boards with maroon lettering and graphic show wear. Front cover and spine cover loosening as shown in pic. Owner's name written on upper front cover in ink. Much-loved, but solid volume with no missing pages or text. This looks like such a fun book!

See Grading Scale page for explanation of grades. Photos of any obvious condition issues will be provided.

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