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Christmas Books. Night Before Christmas. Santa Clause. Tasha Tudor. Rudolph.
#1 – (1996) ‘Twas
The Night Before Christmas. An
Exhibition Catalogue. An exhibition of Clement Clarke Moore’s Poem from the
collections of Catherine Howe Grosfils / Nancy Haig Marshall. Earl Gregg Swem
Library. The College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, Virginia. November 6,
1995 – January 12, 1996. xv,40 pages. Illustrated. Stiff wraps. 9 inches. Signed
by Grosfils & Marshall. Very good condition.
#2 - (c1900) The
Night Before Christmas. W. B. Conkey Company. New York – Chicago. No date
circa 1900. (16 pages) Illustrated. Stiff wraps. 11 inches. Chips & tears.
Old tape to all hinges. Most tape is in the margin. The lower back cover has a
2-1/4 x 1-1/2 inch chip. The four full page chromolithographic illustrations
inside the wraps are clean and bright. Lightly stamped on the back cover is “John
D. Fox Department Store.”
#3 - (1937) Moore, Clement Clark. The Night Before Christmas. Illustrated
by Ruth E. Newton. Assisted by Mabel Horn and Betty Carter. Whitman Publishing
Co. Racine, Wisconsin. (1937) (28) pages. 10-1/4 inches. Hardback. Lightly
bumped corners, light wear. There is a slight 0-1/4 inch paper damage in the gutter
of the plate that spans pages 23-24. Overall very good condition.
#4 - (1944) Moore, Clement Clark. The Night Before Christmas. With
Animated Pictures By Meg Wohlberg. Crown Publishers, New York. 1944. (18)
pages. Illustrated. Spiral bound. Hardback. 8-3/4 inches. Binding lightly
rubbed, darkened. Occasional minor foxing. Overall good+ condition.
#5 - (1983). Cajun
Night Before Christmas. By “Trosclair” Edited by Howard Jacobs. Illustrated
by James Rice. Pelican Publishing Company. Gretna. (c1973) 1983. Ninth
printing. 46 pages. 11-1/4 inches. Hardback. Very good in a lightly used dust
jacket.
#6 - (1901) Sylvestre, Joshua, Edited and Notes By. Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern. New
York: A. Wessels Company, 1901. Decorative green cloth with gilt title within a
border of gilt holly and bells with berries, with green mistletoe and white
berries on green cloth. The spine is also decorated in the same motif. The
binding decoration is signed in gilt “FP.” Top edge gilt. 140 pages. B & W
illustrations. 7-5/8 inches. Hardback. Extremities lightly rubbed. (First Edition).
“Christmas / New Haven / 1925” in pencil on the front end page. Also several of
the rear end pages have pencil notations. Very Good condition.
#7 - (1903) Old
Saint Nicholas. The Brightest of Literary Gems for Colleges, Schools,
Societies, Public and Private Entertainments. Profusely Illustrated. 1903. By
W. B. Conkey Company. Chicago. (225) pages. Illustrated. 9-5/8 inches. Un-numbered
pages. Binding worn, rubbed, scratched & soiled with paper loss around the extremities.
The inner hinges are reinforced with and old tape repair. Contemporary markings
on the front end page. The color frontispiece illustration of Santa is
detached. The upper corner of each page has been incorrectly marked in pencil
as to the page number.
#8 - (1936) Leyendecker, J. C. (artist). Santa Clause. Artwork on the front
cover of the December 26, 1926. The Literary Digest (Magazine). 40 pages. Illustrated.
12 inches. Wraps. Contemporary mailing label on the upper front cover. Light
soiling. Overall very good condition.
#9 - (1939) May, Robert L. Rudolph The Red – Nosed Reindeer. Written for Montgomery Ward.
Illustrated by Denver Gillen. Montgomery Ward. 1939. (30) pages. 10-5/16
inches. First printing with elves
packing sleigh and tri-motored plane. Orange pictorial softcover binding with
Rudolph on the front cover, "Montgomery Ward wishes you a Merry Christmas.
This book is yours with our compliments." On the back cover. Soiling, edge
chips, minor damp staining.
#10 - (1973) Tasha
Tudor’s Christmas. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection. (1973). “..mementos
from the personal collections of noted children’s artist Tasha Tudor..” One
sheet: 8-1/2 x 18-14/16 inches, tri-folded to form six pages. Contains two
Christmas decorations for cut-out and a recipe for a Christmas Tree Gingerbread.
Contains a description of the four Gallery exhibits which include works
inspired by Tasha Tudor. Back cover lightly soiled. Overall very good
condition.
#11 - (1978) Tudor, Tasha. An Advent Calendar From Tasha Tudor. Rand McNally & Company,
1978. 1st 11 x 8-9/16 inches, opens to 25 ½ inches". The doors have not been
opened on the calendar. Very good condition. With the Original unused mailing
envelope illustrated and printed in brown ink. The mailing envelope is lightly
soiled and the top right edge is torn where it had been opened un-carefully.
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