Tongues of the Monte.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1947.
Price: $150.00
About the item
Second edition (first was 1935). 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial yellow cloth, fine in very good pictorial dust jacket (spine toned).
Item #258228
Second edition of the acclaimed folklorist’s “hearty odyssey of tales told… in a land that knows blood and sand.”
Folklorist Dobie devoted his life to showing “the people of Texas and the Southwest the richness of their culture and their traditions, particularly in their legends” (Handbook of Texas). “Blood spurts on the first page of this book and on the last. That is appropriate. It’s a hearty odyssey of tales told by the Mexican ranchers and soothsayers and cowhands in a land that knows blood and sand… Dobie says: ‘It is my nature to draw out of men anything strange or novel they have within themselves, whether the matter be fact or not. In truth, I have no reference for mere facts.’ And with this gift he has collected a book full of strange and interesting tales” (New York Times).
