Category: Christmas

The Star in the Well, A Christmas Story.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The P. F. Volland Company, 1928.

Seller ID: 5032bd

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, illus. rose wrappers), uncut, tissue-protected frontis., 46 pp. Illustrated. Very Good, with sunned spine and edgewear that includes light chipping. From book: Mary-Alice, eating her very soft-boiled egg and her square of buttered toast, was serenely unaware of the stormy forces gathering about the breakfast table until she heard her mother say, with a sob in her voice, ÒBut I hate to think, Michael, that she won't have what we had.Ó ÒWhat did we have?Ó ÒOh, all the beautiful beliefs about Christmas Day. And now, we've lost them, you and I -- we've lost the shep...
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Christmas Joys: A Treasury of Old Favorites and New Gems of Christmas Lore, Legend, and Inspiration. Compiled and Edited by Joan Winmill Brown. Illustrations by Lynn Stephens Lieppman.

By: Brown, Joan Winmill.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Garden City, NY: A Doubleday-Galilee Original/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: 12701

Octavo; slick, full-color illus. boards; xviii, 172 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) along page edges.
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Christmas Stories. Illustrations by Randolph Caldecott.

By: Caldecott, Randolph.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois: The Cuneo Press, Inc., MCMXLV.

Seller ID: 3370bd

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decorations to spine, top edge gilt, uncut, xiii + 240 pp. Good+, with light edgewear that includes a bit of fraying. Contents: The Hall; The Busy Man; Family Servants; The Widow; The Lovers; Family Reliques; An Old Soldier; THe Widow's Retinue; REady-Money Jack; Bachelors; A Literary Antiquary; The Farm-House; Horsemanship; Love Symptoms; Falconry; Hawking; Fortune-Telling; Love-Charms; A Bachelor's Confessions; Gipsies; Village Worthies; The Schoolmaster; The School; A Village Politician; The Rookery; May-Day; The Culprit; Lovers' Troubles;...
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Cuneo Christmas Book, Volume Eighteen. With Original Illustrations Especially Prepared for This Volume.

By: Cuneo Press.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago: The Cuneo Press, Inc., 1959.

Seller ID: 13036scs

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decorations to spine, top edge gilt, uncut, 201 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges. Contents: A Christmas Tree (Charles Dickens); The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Stephen Crane); The Artist of the Beautiful (Nathaniel Hawthorne); A Tale of Negative Gravity (Frank R. Stockton); The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion (Bret Harte); A New England Nun (Mary Wilkins Freeman); Among the Corn-Rows (Hamlin Garland); The Christmas Broadcast (Pope John XXIII);
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Cuneo Christmas Book. With Original Illustrations Especially Prepared for This Volume.

By: Cuneo Press.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago: The Cuneo Press, Inc., 1967.

Seller ID: 13037scs

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decorations to spine, top edge gilt, uncut, 176 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges. Contents: Twin Love (Baynard Taylor); The Star in the Valley (Charles Egbert Craddock); The Monarch of Dreams (Thomas Wentworth Higginson); The Seventh Son (James Hall); The Exiles (Richard Harding Davis); The Pope's Message (Pope Paul VI).
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Peef, The Christmas Bear.

By: Hegg, Tom. [Hanson, Warren; Illus.].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Minneapolis: Waldmaaan House Press, Inc., [1995]. First Printing, As Stated.

Seller ID: 50223s

Oblong quarto, full-collor pictorial boards, 46 pp. Fine (As New), in a Near-Fine dust jacket with slight edgewear.
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Santa's Twin.

By: Koontz, Dean. Illustrated by Phil Parks.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: HarperPrism, (1996).

Seller ID: 8641bd

Oblong quarto, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, full-color illus. endpapers, unpaginated, [68] pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Combining the tongue-in-cheek charm of a modern classic with the timeless magic of cherished holiday tradition, here is a new Christmas story guaranteed to delight children of all ages -- including those who pretend to have grown up... Santa's Twin is the hilarious and heartwarming story of two little girls, Charlotte and Emily, who set out to save Santa from his mischievous twin -- Bob Claus -- who has not ...
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Christmas Story. Illustrations by Bill Crawford.

By: Mencken, H. L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: ess4603`

Small octavo, measuring 6 inches x 7 inches; blue cloth (hardcover); full-color illus. paper label; gilt letters; full-color illus. endpapers; [32] pp. Near-Fine, with darkened spine; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: H. L. Mencken, with an author's tenderness for his offspring, describes this little book as Òa Christmas story to surpass, transcend and put an end to all other Christmas stories. He says that it is full of Òpsychology, sociology, tehology (both moral and dogmatic), ethics, aesthetics, economics, penology, psychiatry and sex appeal.Ó...
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The Joy of Christmas.

By: Miller, Llewellyn, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1960].

Seller ID: m1187

1st edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, 186 pp. Illus. Near-Fine in dust jacket. Includes contributions by: John D. MacDonald, Ogden Nash, Lincoln Steffens, Dorothy Parker, Robert C. Benchley and Heywood Broun.
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A Captured Santa Claus. With Illustrations by W. L. Jacobs.

By: Page, Thomas Nelson.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

Seller ID: 8649bd

Octavo, illustrated green cloth (hardcover), uncut, tissue-protected frontis., 81 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges, former-owner bookplate. Illustrated. Ò...Such was Christmas morning at Holly Hill in the old times before the war -- those times of Memory and Romance. Thus it was that at Christmas, 1863, when the blockading lines were drawn close and there were no new toys to be had for love or money, there were much disappointment and some murmurs at Holly Hills. The children had never really felt the war until then, though their father, Major Stafford, had been off, first with hi...
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Auntie Claus.

By: Primavera, Elise.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: San Diego: Silver Whistle, (1999).

Seller ID: els2825

Quarto, hardcover (full-color illus. boards), 40 pp. Illustrated in full color. Near-Fine, with wear to the upper corner of upper cover; in a like dust jacket.
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Young Claus: Legend of the Boy Who Became Santa.

By: Sims, J. Michael.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA: Cygnet Trumpeter, (1996).

Seller ID: 12801scs

Octavo, red boards (hardcover), silver letters, 100 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: Crafted over many, many years, here is the remarkable story that chronicles the events of the boy who grew to become one of today's most beloved icons. Orphaned as a small child, Young Claus sets off to find his destiny and enters a fantasia-filled forest inhabited by a gentle giant named Mountain, a lost and mystic colony of elves, lead by the Great Belkin, and many remarkable animals. Through Claus' extraordinary encounters and magical journey, this rebellious young man eve...
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Memory of a Large Christmas. Decorations by Constance McMillan.

By: Smith, Lillian.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1962. Stated First Edition.

Seller ID: 50408bd

Octavo, red and green boards (hardcover), 83 pp. Illustrated. Near-Fine, with neat inscription, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Lillian Smith has here painted an enchanting portrait of Christmas as she knew it in childhood. There were nine of the Smith children, and the grandmothers and cousins, and there was a big house that never quite ended, and there were the smokehouse and hog-killing and the shaking of the pecan trees, and all the delicious doings that went on in a 19th century kitchen, which lingered into the early decades of the 20th century. But...
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The Christmas Spirit: A Book of Merriment, Comfort and Cheer.

By: Starr, George Henry.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: The Platt & Peck Co., (1911).

Seller ID: 12559scs

Small, square octavo, illus. cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 138 pp. Very Good, with a bit of speckling to lower cover & tip of spine, and original ad pasted to fep.
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A Perfectly Irregular Christmas Tree. [Signed].

By: Zabar, Abbie.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., (1991). First Printing, Stated.

Seller ID: 12579qs

Signed by the Author. Octavo, full-color illus. boards (hardcover), 39 pp. Charmingly illus. in full color. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with several small rips. From jacket: Here is a story of Christmas, of the hustle and bustle of New York City, and of a scraggly blue spruce that goes on to outshine the most stately balsam. Abbie Zabar's delicate drawings and gently verse pay homage to the best holiday classics. In celebrating the very things that make each of us special, she has created a back-to-basics fairy tale that will captivate children and melt the hearts of grown-ups.
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Category: Christmas