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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 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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Gift book: 3-1/2 x 8-1/4", unpaginated; stiff chromolithographed covers (sewn) in off-white, pale green/pink/purple with gilded edges and title in gold-gilt. The book opens out to a double-spread chromolithograph of water-lilies upon the surface of a pond, with a five-line extract from a poem by Sidney Lanier. Minor touches of use at tips. Fine. A charming gift book which offers lyrics by two popular 19th c. poets on the theme of water lilies. The Lanier extract, with its Christmas theme - ""Alive, yet all at rest, /The lily lieth on the water's breast; / So may thy spirit stay / Upborne by His, that hallowed / Christmas Day" - suggests the publishers likely intended the gift book for the Christmas market. Mrs. Hemans' poetry had a warm and appreciative audience throughout the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic. And Lanier also enjoyed great popular interest. The subject matter, of course, has its own appeal. The gift book strikes our eye as likely American and almost surely printed during the latter part of the 19th c. . We have not located an institutional holding. A very nice example.
WATER LILIES. A Fairy Song
Hemans, Mrs. [Felicia].
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Price: $100.00
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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].
Price: $35.00
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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.
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Price: $45.00
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Christmas token: 6-1/2 x 5-1/2", 6 leaves; pale blue stiff textured stock, die cut edges, with gilt-edged chromolithograph of a ship under sail off the coast of England mounted to front cover; grosgrain ribbon tie; printed on recto only, with sepia-toned chromolithographs. Very slight bowing to the card. Near fine. BAL records that the Coates Brothers issued this charming Christmas token in 1880 and in 1887 D. Lothrop advertised its own printing in PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY. This card lacks the Coates Brother Publishers imprint but otherwise conforms with BAL 10490. Yale University holds a copy of the c. 1887 D. Lothrop card and its description notes "lithographed floral oval" pasted to the front wrapper. Possibly Lothrop intended its printing as an attractive gift item, not specifically a Christmas piece. OCLC records two locations of the Coates Brothers 1880 printing - Brown University (lacking back wrapper) and Colorado College; and one location of the D. Lothrop 1887 printing - Yale University.
Christmas Card: "Spinning"
[Jackson], H[elen] H[unt].
[Cliftondale, Mass.: Coates Brothers Publishers, c. 1880].
Price: $150.00
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