Philadelphia: Williams, Brown & Earle, 1938. 7.5 x 14.5 cm. metal desk calendar with individual leaves for Dec. 1938-Dec. 1939 printed in red and brown. Dec. 1938 has an illustration of a stagecoach and horses in a winter scene. The others each have the main month in the center with..... More
New York: Hearn, 1927. Paperback. [20] p.: illustrations; 10 cm. Stapled; card cover printed with continuous color illustration. No date of publication, but it states that it was the 100th anniversary of its founding. George A. Hearn established his store in 1827; it moved to 14th St. in 1879. This..... More
New York: F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1887. Paperback. [2], 64 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Printed wrappers included in pagination. Contents: portraits of famous men and women; fancy work designs; games, including enigmas, riddles, conundrums, puzzles, rebuses, and charades; money-making secrets; lyrics to popular songs; selections for autograph albums; chemical experiments;..... More
Valparaiso, Ind. Lowenstine's Department Store, 1890. 15 x 18 embossed, die-cut advertisement from Lowenstine's Department Store in Valparaiso, Ind. The chromolithographed image shows two smiling children in lace and ribbons holding a book with "Merry Christmas" on the outside. In gilt on the blue dress "Compliments of Lowenstine's Department Store."..... More
S.l. s.n., 1890. 1 chromolithographed illustration with "Merry Christmas" at the lower edge (11 x 9.2 cm.) and a ruffled pink silk border. Attached to a cardboard stand. The illustration is a rural scene showing person walking down a road under a full moon, a house with a lit window..... More
Barcelona: Ramón Sopena, 1930. Hardcover. [52] p.; many illustrations, including 4 full-page color illustrations; 25 cm. Dark green cloth spine; paper over boards. Color illustrated front board; publisher's advertisements on back board printed in red and black. Part of the series Biblioteca para Niños. "Nihil obstat" June 15 1917 --..... More
Philadelphia: Strawbridge & Clothier, 1927. Pamphlet. [4] p.: illustration; 22 cm. Front has color illustration and decorative border. Program for a concert presented by the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus on Dec. 23, 1927, with a full orchestra; directed by Herbet J. Tilly and accompanied by William Sylvano Thunder. Isaac H...... More
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1899. Paperback. [14] p.: 6 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 27 cm. Chromolithographed paper wrappers. Title and publication information from front wrapper. Text begins and ends inside wrappers, and those pages are included in page count. Gift inscription at head of first page of text dated Dec. 25..... More
London: Oldbourne Book Co., 1963. Hardcover. [44] p.: color illustrations; 20 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Dust jacket (in cover) repeats book cover. Cover and dust jacket title: "The Toytown Pantomime Betty and S.G. Hulme Beaman." List of the Toytown Series and Toytown on Record on back cover and back..... More
Syracuse, N.Y. Willis N. Bugbee Co., 1936. Paperback. 19, [1] p.; 19 cm. Red paper covers printed in black. Verso of front cover, last page, and both sides of back cover contain publisher's advertisements. An amusing one-act play about a twenty-year-old whose family does not appreciate her and who decides..... More
Toronto: Cape & Co., 1962. Paperback. [20] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Green wrapper printed in red and white with French flaps; stapled. Contains lyrics to a wide selection of Christmas carols. Research and selection by John Cape with assistance of the Music Branch of the Toronto Public Libraries. Text, design..... More
Roslyn, NY: Black's Readers Service, 1930. Hardcover. [6], 314, [4], 204 pages; 19 cm. Red cloth with gilt-on-black spine title; gilt spine decoration and cover title. No date of publication; probably around 1930. Contents: A Christmas Carol -- The Chimes -- The Cricket on the Hearth -- 9 short stories..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. Paperback. 268, [4] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with brown wrappers printed in black only. Inside of both wrappers contains list of titles in Funk & Wagnalls Standard Library, numbers 1-105. Outside back wrapper contains advertisements for Vitalized Phos-Phites, and Sohmer pianos, the latter with..... More
San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press, 1976. 1 sheet (31 x 23 cm.), folded, printed in red and black. Undated, as was common on the Christmas greetings issued by bookseller Bill Wreden and his wife, Byra. One of a limited edition of 225 copies printed by the Grace Hoper Press. The..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. [8], 242 p.; 20 cm. Illustrated paper over boards. Lacking dust jacket. Top page edges red. Stated First Edition. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Helene R. Jennings. A novel about a Christmas miracle in a small village in..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1885. Lawson, Lizzie. Hard Cover. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, and Griffith, Farran & Co., London. 31, [1] p.: frontispiece and 9 additional full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth spine with brown-and-white lithographed illustrations on green paper over boards. Floral..... More
New York: Rare Book Division of the New York Public Library, 1977. Paperback. [16] pages: illustrations; 16 cm. Sewn; card cover printed in red and green. Cover title: Saint Nicholas. This is an undated facsimile reprint of the 1849 edition published in New York by Spalding & Shepard. Undated New..... More
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Westport, Conn. Avery, Hand & Co., 1966. [4] p.; 22 cm. Red with black cover title. Holding facsimile (41 x 54 cm.), folded, of Thomas Nast's large illustration of Santa Claus and his activities. The illustration first appeared in Harper's Weekly in Dec. 1866. No date of publication, but refers..... More
Stamford, Conn. Overbrook Press, 1963. Paperback. [6], 30, [4] p.; 22 cm. Black wrapper with white printed label on front wrapper. Red printer's emblem on title page. Issued as the 1963 Season's Greetings from Frank Altschul and Helen Altschul. Frank Altschul (1887-1981) founded the Overbrook Press, which produced more than..... More
Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Co., 1951. Hardcover. [32] p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. White cover with cover title and illustration in red, green, and black. Illustrated endpapers. Original spider web patterned glassine dust jacket. A story from the author's Bred in the Bone, printed in a limited edition as a Christmas..... More
Washington DC: Lester Douglas, 1959. Paperback. [13] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Terracotta red wrapper, stitched, with label printed in red and black. Text is printed in red and black. "This Book of Two Poems by Henry Vaughan, designed and directed by Lester Douglas, with drawings by Lyle Justis and engravings..... More
Dorking, UK: Templar Co., 2005. Hardcover. This edition published in 2005 for Borders. Designed by Janie Jouise Hunt; written by A. J. Wood. [22] p.: color illustrations; 22 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover and red ribbon ties. Opens accordian style. One side has 25 flaps, Advent calendar style, that pull..... More