Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

Subject: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 10:23 AM

It's Used Book Sale time again, and my local library has a copy of this book in the bid section. Minimum bid is $10; if anyone is interested, I would place a bid for you. Info follows:

"The Lore and Languge of Schoolchildren" by Iona and Peter Opie, c. 1960, Oxford at Clarendon Press; hardcoverw/ dustjacket, illustrations, a record of the strange and primitive ways of children. Review found here. Let me know in this thread what you are willing to bid, that way if there is more than one interested you can keep "one upping" each other.

Bidding deadline is 2PM, Mountain Time on April 12.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 11:33 AM

Oh yea, I'll pay shipping in US.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: MMario
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 11:41 AM

Sorcha - I'd pay the minimum of $10 for it. (But it *IS* available in unused copies on the internet for $12.49 - so no higher)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 12:27 PM

OK! I'll wait a few days, see if anybody else wants in.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 06:53 PM

Anybody else?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 10:21 PM

Not much interest, then? I'll bid on it for myself then.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Book/Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 11:18 PM

The price looks reasonable, and it's a book that everyone with an interest in living tradition should have. I'm guessing that MMario's price is for a paperback edition? Watch out; some were bound very badly and will fall to bits with use, as my first copy did. Hardback (as in this case) is probably best for this one. I have a 1960 reprint now, and they are soundly made.