2001, ISBN: 9780393320886

Hardcover

Orbis. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0856139416 . 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages ., Orbis, 1985, 3, Guild Publishing. Very Good in Very G… More...

Orbis. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0856139416 . 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages ., Orbis, 1985, 3, Guild Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Old light stain to tail of spine bds, tiny scar near to top outer edge of upper cover dw. A heavy item that will require additional shipping for overseas customers on some sites. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" ; 288 pages ., Guild Publishing, 1987, 3, Sywell: Igloo Books, 2007. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Gift inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (matching pictorial boards). Physically 10” x 10” (1.4 kg); 160pp; Contains: Colour Photographs; ISBN: 1845614216 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#181303|| Condition:, Sywell: Igloo Books, 2007, 3, Paperback. Very Good., 3, W. W. Norton & Company 2001. 2001. Softcover. Small 4to softcover 480pp, b/w illus. very good. From Publishers Weekly: If a story sounds too good to be true, well, then it's probably an urban legend. Brunvand, the nation's leading authority on these contemporary folktales, draws from five previous collections (The Choking Doberman, Curses! Broiled Again!, etc.), from letters to his syndicated columns and from newspapers around the country, in this truly colossal anthology of horrendous and hilarious stories that sound as if they're true and most of the tellers believe are true, but somehow can never be verified. These are stories told by a FOAF (a friend of a friend) or a neighbor of the radio dispatcher who knows the deputy who talked to the doctor who treated 18 slash victims at the local mall. Many are familiar talesAof the hook heard rasping against the car door handle, of alligators in the sewers of New York, of earwigs in ears and spiders in bouffant hairdosAthis last traced back to the 13th century. Everyone will find at least two or three stories they could have sworn really happened. These are stories that turn up in every region of the country, every walk of life, and that invariably involve laughing paramedics, a dead grandmother stashed on the luggage rack, a fantastically cheap price for a Porsche or an exorbitant one for a cookie recipe from Neiman MarcusAor is it Marshall Fields? In demonstrating how such stories spread, change and endure, and how certain kinds of stories attach themselves to certain franchises and products ("Kentucky Fried Rat" is an especially gruesome example), Brunvand has constructed not only an enterta ., W. W. Norton & Company 2001, 2001, 0<

2001, ISBN: 9780393320886

Hardcover

Guild Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Old light stain to tail of spine bds, tiny scar near to top outer edge of upper cover dw. A heav… More...

Guild Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Old light stain to tail of spine bds, tiny scar near to top outer edge of upper cover dw. A heavy item that will require additional shipping for overseas customers on some sites. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" ; 288 pages ., Guild Publishing, 1987, 3, Orbis. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0856139416 . 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages ., Orbis, 1985, 3, Sywell: Igloo Books, 2007. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Gift inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (matching pictorial boards). Physically 10” x 10” (1.4 kg); 160pp; Contains: Colour Photographs; ISBN: 1845614216 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#181303|| Condition:, Sywell: Igloo Books, 2007, 3, Paperback. Very Good., 3, W. W. Norton & Company October 2001. 2001. Softcover. 8vo softcover 480pp very good. If a story sounds too good to be true, well, then it's probably an urban legend. Brunvand, the nation's leading authority on these contemporary folktales, draws from five previous collections (The Choking Doberman, Curses! Broiled Again!, etc.), from letters to his syndicated columns and from newspapers around the country, in this truly colossal anthology of horrendous and hilarious stories that sound as if they're true and most of the tellers believe are true, but somehow can never be verified. These are stories told by a FOAF (a friend of a friend) or a neighbor of the radio dispatcher who knows the deputy who talked to the doctor who treated 18 slash victims at the local mall. Many are familiar talesAof the hook heard rasping against the car door handle, of alligators in the sewers of New York, of earwigs in ears and spiders in bouffant hairdos this last traced back to the 13th century. Everyone will find at least two or three stories they could have sworn really happened. These are stories that turn up in every region of the country, every walk of life, and that invariably involve laughing paramedics, a dead grandmother stashed on the luggage rack, a fantastically cheap price for a Porsche or an exorbitant one for a cookie recipe from Neiman Marcus or is it Marshall Fields? In demonstrating how such stories spread, change and endure, and how certain kinds of stories attach themselves to certain franchises and products. ., W. W. Norton & Company October 2001, 2001, 0<