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Rayford, Julian Lee Child of the Snapping Turtle: Mike Fink
New York Abelard Press (c.1951) First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[solid/square copy, a bit of shelfwear, mild toning to page edges; jacket chipped along top/bottom edges, some paper loss from chipping at head of spine, also along top of rear panel; mild smudging on front panel]. "Mike Fink could outfight, outhop, outjump, outswim--and he could outlove--any man on any side of the rivers from Pittsburgh and New Orleans, back to St. Louis and all points in between. Of the great pioneers and frontiersmen, real men whose names have become legendary, Mike Fink takes his place along with Paul Bunyan, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. He is best known as riverman [but] he was more than the King of keelboatmen. He started as a scout and Indian fighter when Pittsburgh was a frontier town; he was a mighty hunter and the best rifle shot of his time... [He also] is credited with a half- dozen songs and chants which are part of American folk literature."
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60.00 USD
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Rayford, Julian Lee Cottonmouth
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1941 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dj Illustrated by the author
[good solid copy, light soiling to cloth along top and bottom edges, one-time owner's florid signature (Blanche Deschamps) on ffep; jacket moderately edgeworn, a bit of paper loss surrounding top of spine, a couple of short closed tears]. (decorative chapter head- and tail-pieces) The author's first novel, set in Mobile, Alabama. He was also a painter and sculptor (he provided the chapter head- and tail-pieces for this book), and per the jacket copy, an "originator of 'chants' -- on Abe Lincoln, Davy Crockett and other American heroes real and fabulous." The rear jacket panel bears an illustration of Rayford by James Montgomery Flagg. Selected for reprinting by the University of Alabama Press in their "Library of Alabama Classics" in 1991.
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125.00 USD
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