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Hardcover:
9780824071493 | Routledge, April 1, 1991, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: First published in 1991.
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9780393047349 | Ill edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies
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9780393347159 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 6, 2014), cover price $18.95
9780393320886 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
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9788483460931 | Poc edition (Debolsillo, August 30, 2006), cover price $12.95
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9788484281412 | Italian edition edition (Alba Editorial S.L., May 30, 2005), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: New product.
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9780393326130 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 15, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An anthology of some of history's most unsettling urban legends includes the tales of a coed who is followed by a mental hospital escapee, the hook-man campfire story, and the 'Saved by a Cell Phone' tale.
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9781417653089 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: An anthology of some of history's most unsettling urban legends includes the tales of a coed who is followed by a mental hospital escapee, the hook-man campfire story, and the 'Saved by a Cell Phone' tale.
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9788497932615 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, September 30, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Debolsillo.
Hardcover:
9780880335287 | East European Monographs, January 1, 2004, cover price $47.50
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9781576070765 | Abc-Clio Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin slots of pay telephones.
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9780393323580 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin slots of pay telephones.
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9788484281665, titled "El fabuloso libro de las leyendas urbanas / the Fabulous Book of Urban Legends" | Alba Editorial S.L., October 22, 2002, cover price $35.95
Hardcover:
9780252024245 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An expert on the 'urban legend' discusses such favorite myths as the 'Brain Drain,' the 'Baby Roast,' and many other supposedly true tales gathered from a 'friend of a friend.
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9780252070044 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, April 18, 2001), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Pins down the qualities that give urban legends their air of authenticity and make them hard to believe yet impossible to dismiss.
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9780815307518 | Garland Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Includes the major American folklore genres of custom, folksong, folktale, games, myth, proverbs, riddles and puzzles, and superstition, as well as entries covering some of the minor genres
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9780815333500 | Routledge, October 1, 1998, cover price $88.95
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9780393972238, titled "The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction" | 4 sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1998), cover price $88.90
9780393954951 | 3rd edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1986), cover price $41.25 | also contains The Silkworm
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9781563891656 | Dc Comics, November 1, 1994, cover price $14.95
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9780393034387, titled "The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends" | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1993, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The nationally syndicated columnist of 'Urban Legends' returns with a new collection of unlikely stories that 'really happened' to a friend of a friend, featuring gory, bawdy, and hilariously widespread modern folktales
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9780393312089 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1994), cover price $22.95
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9780393027105 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1989, cover price $18.95
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9780393307115 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1990), cover price $21.95
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9780393951691 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1989), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of examples of major American urban legends, one of the most common forms of contemporary American folklore, and explains their popular appeal
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9780393018448 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This collection of more than forty new legends--most of them still current and widely told--features 'The Severed Fingers,' 'The Baby on the Roof,' and 'The Elephant That Sat on a VW,' whose themes encompass cars, contamination, sex, and faulty appliances
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9780393303216, titled "The Choking Doberman: And Other "New" Urban Legends" | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1986), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of more than forty new legends--most of them still current and widely told--whose themes encompass cars, contamination, sex, and faulty appliances
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9780393023244 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This collection of urban legends brings together both new tales, including 'The Cabbage Patch Tragedy' and 'I Believe in Mary Worth,' as well as a sampling of favorites from previous collections
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9780393305425 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This collection of urban legends brings together both new tales, including 'The Cabbage Patch Tragedy' and 'I Believe in Mary Worth,' as well as a sampling of favorites from previous collections
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9780393950298 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1979, cover price $45.40 | About this edition: This book fills the long-felt need for an organized collection of scholarly studies in American folklore.
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