Foxfire Book: Volumes 1, 2

Two Trade Paperbacks 384, 410 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed Anchor First editions 1972, 1973. Attractive solid color wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's signature on front endpapers. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.

In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians.

ISBN 0385073534 Volume 1 'The Foxfire Book' is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living."

ISBN 0385022670 Volume 2 'Foxfire 2' celebrates the rites and customs of Appalachia, featuring sections on ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, corn shuckin's, spinning and weaving, midwives, granny women, old-time burial customs, witches and haints, and wagon making.

Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He was most widely known for developing the Foxfire Project, a writing project that led to a magazine and the series of best-selling Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all. These were based on articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia.

Wigginton began a writing project based on his students' collecting oral histories from local residents and writing them up. They published the histories and articles in a small magazine format beginning in 1967. Topics included all manner of folklife practices and customs associated with farming and the rural life of southern Appalachia, as well as the folklore and oral history of local residents. The magazine began to reach a national audience and became quite popular.

The first anthology of collected Foxfire articles was published in book form in 1972, and achieved best-seller status. Over the years, the schools published eleven other volumes.