[Rarebooks] FS: 1896 Skinner: Myths & Legends of American Indians, Pioneers & Mexico / Canada -3 vols

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Myths & Legends of Our Own Land" [and] "Myths & Legends Beyond Our 
Borders”

By Charles M. Skinner.
Published in Philadelphia by J.B. Lippincott Company in 1896 and 1899.

The first two volumes are an early and important collection of American 
folklore, the third volume expands to collection to Canada and Mexico.

“Charles Montgomery Skinner [1852-1907] was an American writer. His 
career in literature and journalism included editorship of the Brooklyn 
Eagle. Skinner published collections of myths, legends and folklore 
found inside the United States and across the world. Skinner hoped that 
America’s progress would transform the nation’s few legends into few but 
great ones- ‘as time goes on the figures seen against the morning 
twilight of our history will rise to more commanding stature’. He hoped 
to combine folklore conventions with New England transcendentalism to 
keep alive traditions endangered by the industrial age. Skinner’s 
writings were wide ranging. He was a playwright, authoring ‘Villon, the 
Vagabond’. Skinner’s other interests included the seasons, especially as 
they changed inside of industrializing cities. In order to improve the 
urban environment, he authored a guide to gardening and urban 
beautification. He also commented on turn-of-the-century America’s 
turbulent economy in ‘Workers and the Trusts and American Communes’. His 
other contributions to American literature included works of natural 
history such as ‘With Feet to the Earth’ and ‘Do-Nothing Days’”

3 volumes. Hardcovers. 4.5”x7.25”. 318 & 335 pages plus 8 black & white 
plates [and] 319 pages plus 4 black & white plates. Minor cover soil, 
minor interior soil, names on the endpapers. Partially unopened. [43429] 
  $85

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