Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Some minor wear to book edges and corners. Foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has some creasing to top edge. Previous owner has signed inside page.
A reference book of phrases, sayings, bywords, fables, folk history, identification symbols and customary attitudes. Compiled by noted folklorist, columnist, editor, writer and anthologist Bill Wannan.
The product of fifteen years of research, this was one of the first comprehensive collections of traditional Australian folklore.
1,286 entries, 2000 illustrations, 600 pages.