The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1981 • W.W. Norton

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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 excellent condition.  

Dust jacket has some mild edge wear and a corner clipped off of front panel.  Otherwise excellent; now housed in a new Archival quality jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent.  Touch of sunning to boards; and bookplate on front endpaper w/ gift inscription from 1981.  Reads like new. 


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.