The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

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The Vanishing Hitchhiker : American Urban Legends and Their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1981] W.W. NORTON & CO.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

DJ has some shelf / corner wear but is in excellent condition overall.  corner clipped off of front panel.   Book itself reads like new.  Bookplate from orig. owner fixed to flyleaf [see last photo]


The book that launched America's urban legend obsession! The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.