Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 361

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(LITERATURE AND POETRY--LOUISIANA FOLK TALES.) THOMPSON, M. AGNES. Metairie and Other Old Aunt Tilda of New Orleans Sketches. 94 pages. Small 8vo, original cloth-covered perfect bound boards. New Orleans, 1892

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first edition of an uncommon collection of new orleans folk tales. Many of these traditional old tales told among the old folk of New Orleans have their roots in the Anansi tales from Africa. Most of them originally appeared in the pages of the Times Picayune.