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