Author: INGOLDSBY, THOMAS Title: The Jackdaw of Rheims
Description: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Hardcover. Reading copy. Purple and black cloth boards. Gilt title, gilt drawing of a jackdaw on top of a structure. Pages are intact. Undated - two dates are on the front endpapers of former owners, one dated 1904, the other 1910. Back hinge is totally cracked; the book is held together by protective plastic laminate. This is a humorous story of a jawdaw who steals a cardinal's ring - the monks and the friars are on their hands and knees searching. Interesting fact is how this jawdaw was made a saint and canonized by the name of Jim Crow !. P .
Keywords: Jackdaws Jim Crow Rheims and Namur Cardinal's Lost Ring He Call'd for His Candle, His Bell and His Bookhe Cursed That Rascally Thief Where the Name Jim Crow Came from Friars and Tucks
Price: US$ 14.00 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 26965
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