Big Road Walker / by Eula G. Duncan ; based on stories told by Alice Cannon ; illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Eula G., (Eula Griffin), 1901-1977, author.

Contributor:

Cannon, Alice, approximately 1904- originator.

Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-1990, illustrator.

J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales.

African Americans--Folklore.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7146) (Schimmel 7147))

Swedenberg, Anne (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7146))

Physical Description:

x, 121, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; New York : J.B. Lippincott Company, [not before 1940]

Notes:

"Alice Cannon, from whom I first heard of Big Road Walker, has been cooking for my sister in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for a number of years ... Alice, as might be inferred, is from Newberry, South Carolina. She tells me that her father told her stories about these characters when she was a child, and that his father told them to him."--Pages ix-x. Alice Cannon is possibly to be identified with Alice R. [Alice Ruth?] Cannon (born approximately 1904 in Newberry, S.C.), daughter of Oscar Tarrant Cannon (born approximately 1873 in South Carolina) and Lelia Beatrice Neely (born approximately 1876 in Georgia) and sister of Alvin N. (Alvin Neely) Cannon (1910-1996), a contributor to the Illinois Writers Project's study The Negro in Illinois.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies (Schimmel 7146 and 7147) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7147) is the fourth impression. See verso of title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7146) has autograph ("Anne Swedenberg") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7146): dust jacket (damaged) retained.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7147) is the fifth impression. See verso of title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 7147): dust jacket (mutilated) retained.

OCLC:

1456544278