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Jack and the Devil's Purse: Scottish Traveller Tales

Duncan Williamson

First published 2011
Publisher Birlinn
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Pages 216
Price £8.99
ISBN 9781841589510

    20 stories
  • "An expanded edition of Duncan Williamson's best selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye! [Edinburgh: Canongate, 1989; Revised ed. 1990] Twenty tales surviving from oral tradition are re-told by one of Scotlands master yarn spinners. Williamson provides fascinating insight into the beliefs about evil, suffering, and temptation held by travellers." --summary, WorldCat library record {{OCLC|696087209}}
  • "This collection is an expanded edition of Duncan Williamson's best-selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye!, originally published by Canongate." --blurb at Amazon UK 2018-04-29

    Data from Amazon UK as of 2011-03-25.
  • Edited by Linda Williamson. Full title, editor credit, and trade paperback format (size 20 cm) from WorldCat, with list of 20 story titles.
  • For this ISBN as of 2018-04-29, Amazon UK (as RRP: £8.99, 19.7 cm) provides "Look inside" the companion ebook that includes cover image, title page, Contents list, and the entire Introduction by Linda Williamson.
  • Amazon US same day provides the same data except "Paperback – April 1, 2011", "Buy New $15.00", 7.8in (and same "Look inside" the ebook).
  • See also the Introduction record.

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