By Iona and Peter Opie
Oxford   Clarendon Press
9.5" by 6" xviii, 417pp
A pleasing first edition of this unique study into the language and behaviours of 1950s schoolchildren in the UK.
By Iona and Peter Opie

1959 The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

Oxford   Clarendon Press
9.5" by 6" xviii, 417pp
A pleasing first edition of this unique study into the language and behaviours of 1950s schoolchildren in the UK.
£35.00
: 0.5kgs / : 935Y50

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work.

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. 

This study, comprising information collected over eight years from five thousand children in England, Scotland and Wales, traces the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, including nicknames, slang, riddles, jokes, initiation rites, omens and pranks. 

Carried out by Iona and Peter Opie, an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play. 

Illustrated with eleven sketched distribution maps, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete.

Condition

In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is very smart, with edge wear and faint marks to the rear panel. With tape neatly adhered to the spine head, not visible externally. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.

Near Fine

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