Folklore: Two Articles Reprinted from Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia (American Folklore and Its Old-World Backgrounds / Following the Folk Takes Around the World)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: F. E. Compton & Company , 1949. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, lightly stained along the spine, gently shelf worn, library stamp on the front cover and the title page (only such markings throughout the text), a couple of the pages have lines in ink on them, overall a clean, collectible used first F. E. Compton edition! Extremely rare and hard to find! Unpaginated, wonderfully illustrated in black and white! Very very scarce! "It has long been a Compton custom to make available in reprint form a few articles which hold special values for librarians and teachers and for students of library science and children's literature. In this booklet we have reprinted and bound together two especially choice articles: 'American Folklore and Its Old-World Backgrounds,' by Carl Carmer; and 'Following the Folk Tales Around the World,' by Mary Gould Davis...." ---- from the Foreword. First Thus. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by James Daugherty . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.