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ARTIFACT:
This is a 1972 paperback copy of "The Firefox Book (hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living)" by Eliot Wigginton. Wigginton, a teacher who moved to the Appalachian Mountains, recorded and photographed the skills of many people surviving in largely the same way as their forebears. This book was first published by Anchor Press, and had been in a magazine format up until then. It is a great reference book for Doomsdayers and other folk alike.
VINTAGE:
Published 1972.
SIZE:
384 pages. Approximately 9-1/8" in height and 6" in width and 1-1/8" in thickness.
MATERIALS / CONSTRUCTION:
Oaktag cover, paper.
ATTACHMENT:
Glued binding.
MARKINGS:
Anchor Books Doubleday & Company Inc. Garden City, New York 1972.
ITEM NOTES:
This is from a reference book collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months. LBCX6/13
CONDITION:
7+ (Very Fine+): The book has some light aging and a bit if writing and staining on the cover only.
GUARANTEE: As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.
