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Signed by Bates in full at the lower margin, beneath the printed legend, "Christmas Greeting from". Small broadside: 7-1/4 x 5-1/16", printed on stiff cardstock (one side). Color illustrations. Tips a little bumped; small bump to bottom edge. Very good. A Christmas poem of five stanzas in which the poet imagines a pilgrim stopping to drink water at a well whose water still speaks of "how the Magi lost the star / And found it on the road to Bethlehem". As the last verse suggests, divinity lies within the soul of each: "Could Magi miss the way to Bethlehem? / Stooping above the well, their orient star / They found / Glimmering within the water's little round, / Like God reflected in all souls that are, / In our dim souls the star of Bethlehem". Hugh and Margaret Eaton printed at least two other Christmas pieces for Katharine Lee Bates: "The Three Kings" and "The Lame Shepherd". OCLC notes a single holding only for all three at Brown University. An attractive piece, and as OCLC records, a decided rarity.
Christmas Greeting: "The pilgrim on the road to Bethlehem"
Bates, Katharine Lee.
[Brooklyn, N.Y.: Valhal Studio Hugh and Margaret Eaton, ND, but ca. 1922].
Price: $300.00
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First trade edition. 8vo, 41pp; + "About the Author"; maroon cloth over boards with gold stamping; publisher's slipcase with photograph at front panel. Slipcase has two minor abrasions along fore-edge at front. Fine in very good slipcase. Capote's account of a rare Christmas visit with his father.
ONE CHRISTMAS
Capote, Truman.
New York: Random House, (1983).
Price: $75.00
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First appearance of this Christmas story. 8vo, 48pp; printed blue wrappers (sewn) which are worn and somewhat soiled with chipping at tips and all along spine with the wrappers almost detached. The interior shows a little aging, but is quite clean. Given the age and fragility of the piece, generally about very good. Housed in a custom-made cloth case. Dickens wrote the first and last chapters of "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy." Mrs. Lirriper had made her first appearance the previous year in "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," Dickens' Christmas story for 1863. She had been a tremendous success", in his old comic vein", selling over 200,000 copies. This Christmas number was the second issued in blue wrappers. One of the writer's last Christmas pieces. Carr B242. Robson, p. 36.
MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY, The Extra Christmas Number of ALL YEAR AROUND, Conducted by Charles Dickens, For Christmas 1864
Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864.
Price: $100.00
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First edition. 8vo, 101pp; white linen cloth stamped in copper front and spine; beige dust jacket with woodcuts by David Frampton. Pages framed by a single red rule at the outer margin with a stylized Christmas star at the top corner of the recto leaf. Dust jacket’s front flap is price-clipped. A Christmas story placed in 1855 about a Southerner, a slave and the Underground Railroad. Fine.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS
Haley, Alex.
New York: Doubleday, (1988).
Price: $35.00
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Later printing. Originally published in 1928. Musical score: 11-7/8 x 9", 45pp; white wrappers (stapled) with color illustration of the toy shop at the front cover. Mild crease to upper fore corner throughout; light overall use. About very good. A Christmas story in which the young orphan Tina is reunited with her father, the toy maker, and experiences her first Christmas tree. Phyllis McGinley and Gladys Rich collaborated on several musical plays often intended for performance by school children: WALK THE PLANK!: a pirate squall (also 1928); GARDEN MUSIC: a flower fantasy (1931); THE LADY SAYS YES (1936) and RENTING THE HIVE (1938).
THE TOY-SHOP A Musical Play In Three Acts Libretto and Lyrics by Phyllis McGinley and Music by Gladys Rich
McGinley, Phyllis.
New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., [ND].
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First edition. 1/500 hand-numbered copies, this being copy no. 381, with a special frontispiece drawing. Signed by both the writer and the artist. Small 4to, 34pp; green cloth stamped in gold on the spine; decorated endpapers; with publisher's matching green cloth slipcase with gilt lute after Shahn drawing stamped on front. A touch of overall fading. Near fine. Ms. Porter's family Christmas stories have a poignant afterward: her niece, the beneficiary of the nativity story, died at age 5-1/2. This memorial to her, illustrated by Ben Shahn, is touching. *When the book first issued, booksellers discovered that Ms. Porter's signature was, in fact, auto-pen. According to her bibliographer a "majority of the copies were returned to the publisher for a true signature which the author provided". Katherine Anne Porter's signature appears twice at the colophon. Bixby A16c.
A CHRISTMAS STORY. Drawings by Ben Shahn
Porter, Katherine Anne.
New York: Delacorte Press, (1967).
Price: $150.00
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First edition. Signed, "Happy / Holidays! / Best Wishes, / Robert / Sabuda". 8-1/4 x 8-1/4", unpaginated; printed blue paper over boards with bright crimson shelfback. Fine. Six double-page pop-ups with five smaller pop-ups in Sabuda's signature white. The pop-ups, as one has come to expect with this master, are brilliantly conceived. The pop-up of the narrator's dash to the window to see Santa Claus and his sleigh has a shade, with a dangling pull, sliding up as the pop-up opens. Another has the eight reindeer coming right out toward the viewer. The last depicts the quiet town - houses, church, bridge, and streets - against a mountain backdrop with scudding clouds above; a pull-tab brings the eight reindeer and the sleigh across the sky amidst whirling snow flakes. The family, by the way, are mice and the illustrator invests them with considerable charm. A thoroughly captivating rendering of the classic Christmas verse.
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Sabuda, Robert.
New York: Little Simon, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Price: $150.00
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First edition. Signed "Kate Douglas Wiggin" (underscored) at the front cover and dated "Aug. 31, 1918" at the title page. 7-3/8 x 5-3/8", 45pp; printed brown wrappers (stapled). Short tears to wrappers around edges, including a 1" closed tear at botton edge of the front wrapper near spine. Generally very good. The writer first published her story THE OLD PEABODY PEW subtitled "a Christmas romance of a country church" in 1907. Immediately popular here and in London, Houghton Mifflin reprinted the story separately and in an edition with two other Wiggin tales and authorized a Grosset and Dunlap printing. In 1911 Tauchnitz issued its own edition. Public enthusiasm for the piece and Wiggin's own delight in theater led to this stage adaptation. Remembered today for her children's classic, REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, Wiggin also captured the spirit and character of New England in stories such as THE OLD PEABODY PEW. BAL 22677.
THE OLD PEABODY PEW: Dramatised by Kate Douglas Wiggin: From her Book of the Same Title
Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
New York: Samuel French: Publisher, (1917).
Price: $100.00
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Christmas greeting signed in blue ink, "Richard & Annie Dillard". Christmas card: single sheet, 6-3/4 x 10", folded to 6-3/4 x 5", "Charles Dickens", an unfinished watercolor by Robert William Buss reproduced at the front leaf in color with the greeting "All Good Wishes of the Season" at the inside leaf. Minor use. Near fine. The Buss watercolor depicts the great English author sitting in his study at Gad's Hill with his various literary characters emerging from the books which line the room. Given Dickens' Christmas tales in particular, an apposite literary reference for the season.
Christmas Card, Signed
[Christmas] Dillard, Annie.
[NP]: , [ND].
Price: $45.00
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