First edition of this wonderfully illustrated book of life in the Ozark hills, using the dialect of that period. Ilustrated through out with full page, and decorations woodcuts by Raymond Bishop. The dedication page to Vance Randolph (Vance Randolph was a folklorist who collected, annotated, and published different folklore genres for over a thirty-year-period in the Ozark region) states; "Because his is the acknowledged authority on Ozark dialect, because we traveled them thar hills together, and because he twice went over this story in the painstaking effort to make it regionally perfect". A woods colt is an illegitimate child, wild an' bred in the hills. A story of the people and life in the Ozark hills, hunting, fishing, courting, and moonshinning. Brownish orange cloth boards and spine, woodcut pastedown to front. Title panel to spine, toned. Spine ends rubbed, few short closed tears, few pale soil marks to front board, woodcut illustrated e.p.'s. Deckled page ends. No writing, all else clean, solidly bound. First Edition, stated. 3288, sm 8 vo.

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