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An anthology of music, prose, and poetry representing the cultural heritage of the American Negro
Hardcover:
9780691165240 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 13, 2015, cover price $60.00
Paperback:
9780396081975, titled "The Book of Negro Folklore" | Reissue edition (Dodd Mead, October 1, 1983), cover price $12.95 | also contains The Book of Negro Folklore | About this edition: An anthology of music, prose, and poetry representing the cultural heritage of the American Negro
Hardcover:
9780679854654 | Har/cas edition (Random House, January 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Paperback:
9780553507805 | Reprint edition (Dragonfly, January 6, 2015), cover price $7.99
Miscellaneous:
9781605149110 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, August 1, 2008), cover price $59.99
9781605143972 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, May 1, 2008), cover price $39.99
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780974171173 | Abridged edition (Audio Bookshelf, January 30, 2005), cover price $24.95
9780394893013 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 1, 1988), cover price $9.95
Prebinding:
9780606363778 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, January 6, 2015), cover price $18.40
Hardcover:
9780553513073 | 50 anv edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 23, 2014), cover price $17.99
Library:
9780553513080 | 50 anv edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 23, 2014), cover price $20.99
Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs just by looking at them, and he takes a two dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.
Paperback:
9781481444880 | Reissue edition (Atheneum, November 28, 2014), cover price $17.99
School and Library:
9780689846403 | Atheneum, January 6, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs just by looking at them, and he takes a two dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.
Paperback:
9781939160850 | Reissue edition (August House Pub Inc, September 16, 2014), cover price $9.95
Paperback:
9781477771983 | Powerkids Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $10.60
Library:
9781477771976 | Powerkids Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $26.25
Hardcover:
9781617038853 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 2, 2013, cover price $55.00
Paperback:
9780786471294 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 19, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The all new essays in this book discuss Black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales.
Library:
9781608704392 | Benchmark Books, August 30, 2013, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: American Legends and Folktales celebrates the wisdom and humor of larger-than-life characters in six traditional stories that reflect the diversity of Americas cultural heritage.
Library:
9781623236175 | The Childs World Inc, August 1, 2013, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Slaves who lost their wings under great oppression learn to fly freely once again, in their hearts and in their minds.
Hardcover:
9781846555848, titled "The Elephant Keeper's Children" | Vintage Uk, September 20, 2012, cover price $30.40 | About this edition: [Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.
9780253352200, titled "Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans" | Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1978, cover price $39.95 | also contains Shuckin'' and Jivin'': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans | About this edition: From rural and urban Virginia comes a collection of Black American folktales, ghost stories, anecdotes, songs, jokes and toasts
Paperback:
9781846555855 | Gardners Books, September 20, 2012, cover price $21.55 | About this edition: [Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.
Hardcover:
9781579129224 | Hachette Books, September 25, 2012, cover price $14.95
Library:
9781608704415 | Benchmark Books, August 1, 2013, cover price $28.50
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Paperback:
9780822564775 | First Avenue Editions, September 1, 2007, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Miscellaneous:
9780822570363 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 2010, cover price $25.26
Library:
9781575058870 | Millbrook Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $25.32 | About this edition: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Hardcover:
9780794526740 | Usborne Pub Ltd, January 1, 2010, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: This is a new title in the fantastic "First Reading" series, part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme.
Hardcover:
9780874996180 | Live Oak Media, January 1, 2000, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9781416998433 | Reprint edition (Simon Spotlight, May 11, 2009), cover price $10.99 | About this edition: With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the hairy creature that dominates the swamp near his home by the Tombigbee River.
9781591125983 | Pap/com un edition (Live Oak Media, January 1, 2003), cover price $31.95
9781591123989 | Pap/com edition (Live Oak Media, January 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Narrator Robin Miles brings Molly Bang's version of this traditional southern folktale to life.
9780874996197 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, March 30, 2000), cover price $32.95
9780874996173 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, January 1, 2000), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the hairy creature that dominates the swamp near his home by the Tombigbee River.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780874996166 | Unabridged edition (Live Oak Media, January 1, 2000), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the hairy creature that dominates the swamp near his home by the Tombigbee River.
Paperback:
9780140566222 | Puffin, December 1, 1999, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain
School and Library:
9780803716063 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1994, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain
Library:
9780803716070 | Dial Books for Young Readers, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain
Reinforced:
9780606174183 | Demco Media, September 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | also contains John Henry | About this edition: Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain
Prebinding:
9781442007147 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.99 | also contains John Henry
Hardcover:
9780313362958 | Greenwood Pub Group, March 20, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales.
Hardcover:
9781103043286, titled "The Tar-Baby, and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus" | Bibliolife, January 30, 2009, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780877970798 | Larlin Corp, June 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Paperback:
9781103043262, titled "The Tar-baby, and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus" | Bibliolife, January 30, 2009, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781557094896, titled "The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus" | Applewood Books, June 30, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fifteen rhymes and eleven songs of Uncle Remus, including the Tar-Baby story in rhymed form.
A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.
Paperback:
9780060934545 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2002), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.
Prebinding:
9781439568439 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $21.95 | also contains Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.
Hardcover:
9780060188931 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.
Prebinding:
9781439568439 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $21.95 | also contains Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
Hardcover:
9780816647118 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 18, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: 'Choreographing the Folk' argues for the significance of Hurston's choreography, and with perceptiveness, sensitivity, and originality, Kraut illuminates the important and often-contested place of black folk dance in American culture.
Paperback:
9780816647125 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 11, 2008, cover price $25.00
Library:
9781420500820 | Lucent Books, August 22, 2008, cover price $39.40 | About this edition: Examines African American folklore in context so that readers will understand the connection between black history and the broad sweep of America's story.
Hardcover:
9780531058077 | Orchard Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | also contains Stand Boldly & Shine Brightly!: A Kid's Secret Guide to Facing Bullies | About this edition: A collection of sixteen tales about High John the Conqueror, the traditional trickster hero of blacks during and immediately after the time of slavery
Paperback:
9780874837742 | Reissue edition (August House Pub Inc, April 1, 2005), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of sixteen tales about High John the Conqueror, the traditional trickster hero of African-Americans during and immediately after the time of slavery.
9780874834338 | Reprint edition (August House Pub Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of sixteen tales about High John the Conqueror, the traditional trickster hero of Blacks during and immediately after the time of slavery
9780440405566 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, January 1, 1992), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A collection of sixteen African American folktales focuses on the adventures of High John the Conqueror--a legendary Black folk hero who was always able to outwit and outguess his white slave masters
Prebinding:
9781439535998 | Reissue edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A collection of sixteen tales about High John the Conqueror, the traditional trickster hero of blacks during and immediately after the time of slavery.
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