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New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry by Samuel Adams Drake. 1884.

 A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry by Samuel Adams Drake.  Illustrations by F.T. Merrill. Roberts Brothers. 1884. 7"x 8 1/2" 461 pages plus 2 pages advertising Hardcover with no dust jacket. Original cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine.  Some wear to the illustrations on the spine, but black witches on the front cover are clear. Heavy wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Wear is more moderate on the rest of the cover edges. Top of the front flyleaf is torn off. There is erasure mark on the first blank page. Tissue facing the frontispiece has some tears. Slight separation after the copyright page. There is also a slight separation after page 240.  No other previous owner markings.  No other tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KG03a