1890s large die-cut of an easel holding a painting of a winter scene
Measures approximately 13 x 8.5 inches, mounted to an old sheet of black paper, some light rubbing and wear.
Christmas & Holiday Books
1890s large die-cut of Little Jack Horner in a corner pulling a plum from his Christmas Pie
Measures approx. 12 x 6.5 inches inches, very good, light wear to crown of his head and lower right, mounted to old turquoise sheet of paper, covered with acetate sheet taped to verso. Charming image.
24 1905-1910s postcards, flower - floral themed, Birthday, Christmas, New Years, etc., German chromolithography
24 postcards, almost all printed in Germany and Saxony, many in relief, mostly filled out with messages on versos, some postmarked, dates range from 1905 to 1917, condition is overall very good, all cards featuring flowers, wreaths, bouquets, etc.
Ca. 1903-1919 35 chromolithograph & relief greeting cards (Birthday, Christmas, New Years, Easter)
Many filled out on versos, some postmarked, dates range from 1903 to 1919, all very good, many famous publishers including Raphael Tuck, Gibson Art Co. (Cincinnati), Gartner & Bender (Chicago), Rotograph Co., Bonton Art Co., Nister-Dutton, International Art Publishing Co., etc.
The Christmas Story
(NY): Printed by Rudge for Mr. and Mrs. Hunt T. Dickinson, Ca. 1935. Small 8vo, cream boards, handsome printing, inscribed by publishers on flyleaf, very good. Text is the second chapter of Luke. In 1909 at the age of nine, Hunt Dickinson inherited $5 million from a rich uncle (about.....
Season's Greetings Card, Featuring an Early Airplane
n/a: n/a, 1915. Paperback. 1915 season's greetings card featuring an early model of airplane. Measures 5 by 8 inches, tie bound, front illustrated with airplane and folding calendar, contemporary gift inscription. Very good. Light edge wear and toning, else clean and unmarked.
B. Altman and Co Fall and Winter 1898-99
New York: B. Altman and Co, 1898-1899. Paperback. Fall and winter, 1898-99. paperback, oblong 8vo. in printed wraps. 92pp. with fashions for women and children listed with contemporary prices. Very good. Toning and shallow chipping to wrap extremities, stain to rear wrap which does not effect contents. Internally bright and.....
Give Scout Gifts for Christmas (1955 catalog)
Washington, PA: Washington-Greene Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1955. Paperback. 22 pp. illustrated catalog of scout-wear, shoes, outdoor stuff, knives, tools, anything you can think of for the youth or adult scout. VG.
Twelve Moneths and Christmas Day from 'Fantastickes'
New York: Clarke & Way, 1951. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by printers. Limited first edition, 1951--one of 1000 unnumbered copies. Gilt-decorated blue cloth hardcover in glassine dust jacket in slipcase, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket in Very Good slipcase, minor ex-library treatments to.....
Georgie's Christmas Carol
Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover, oblong 8vo. in pictorial cloth, dust jacket. 45pp. illustrated. Very good in good dust jacket. Chipping and perforating to dj extremities, else complete and unclipped, housed in mylar. Wear to spine ends, edges toned. Internally unmarked.
The Little Friend
NP: Russell-Rutter Co., 1960. Hardcover. 8vo, brown cloth in glassine dust jacket, book fine (printed on pink paper), jacket a little scuffed and used. A Christmas story, privately printed.
That Blesed Christmas Night
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. First printing. Illustrated boards in dust jacket, 30pp.
Christy's Minstrels' New Songs, Vols. 1-3, plus The St. James's Hall Christy Minstrels' Christmas Annual
London: "Musical Bouquet" Office, C. Sheard / J. E. Adlard, 1860s-1868. Hardcover. 4 volumes total, the 3 volumes are complete, small quarto (9.75 inches tall; 25 cm), the first of the three volumes near fine and bright in red cloth gilt, just a touch of soil to cloth, the second.....
Dalosa Bonbright's Christmas Gift - The Ooze Leather Christmas Series
Chicago: Browne & Howell, 1914. Hardcover. Published 1914, small 8vo, in ooze leather (limp suede) 48 pp, very good. Tale about a feud that erupted over Christmas somewhere in the southwest (maybe Texas). Lots of dialect prose.
Christmas on the Isthmus
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Clermont Press, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint. c.1936. Hardcover. Green cloth. Oblong 12mo. 62pp. Illus. Very Good+. Light general shelfwear, light dampstain to bottom edge of front endpaper, gift inscription.
Zomara, A Romance of Spain; Frank Cowan's Christmas Story
Pittsburgh: 1873. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1873. No publisher listed. Softcover (flexible cloth with gilt title on front cover), 70 pp. + ads., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, age-toning or soiling to some of the pages, minor wear to the edges of the outer pages, covers with minor.....
A Printer's Christmas Books
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1974, hardcover with cloth backed boards, octavo, 40pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book ex-library with plate and stamp to front pastedown, stamp and number to copyright page, otherwise fine with handsome boards showing minor wear to spine ends and corners.....
A Printer's Christmas Books 1930-58
Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1959. First printing. Paperback. First printing, 1959, paperback with sewn binding, small octavo, 16pp., not illustrated. Book ex-library with only indication being a plate to inside front panel, otherwise near fine with general age toning. No DJ.
A Washington Winter
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1883. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt flourishes, 247 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, tear to the upper outer corner of the front flyleaf, soiling and age-toning to the pages and page-edges, a bit of discoloration to.....
A Christmas Story, A Provencal Folk Tale
Privately Printed for Abbott Kimball / Aldus Printers, 1939. First printing. Paperback. Number 16 of a "limited number" printed. First edition, 1939. Hardcover, 17 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling or discoloration to the outer pages, light rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the.....
Christmas Nights' Entertainments; Or, the Pastor's Visit to the Science of Salvation
New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1881. Hardcover. Hardcover with gilt and black stamped blue cloth boards, 1881, small octavo, 194pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book good with edgewear to spine ends and corners, rubbing and soil to boards and spine, binding tight, stamp and previous owners' signatures to front.....
Dombey and Son (The Work of Charles Dickens Vol. VII), Nelson's edition de Luxe
New York: Thomas Nelson, c. 1927. Hardcover. No date, c. 1927. Publisher's de luxe edition in leather over flexible boards with gilt titles and design, in original plain brown paper jacket and 2 piece red box. Frontis. Christmas gift inscription from 1927 on the fly leaf, otherwise a fine, well.....
Out Mutual Friend (The Work of Charles Dickens Vol. XV), Nelson's edition de Luxe
New York: Thomas Nelson, c. 1927. Hardcover. No date, c. 1927. Publisher's de luxe edition in leather over flexible boards with gilt titles and design, in original plain brown paper jacket and 2 piece red box. Frontis. Christmas gift inscription from 1927 on the fly leaf, otherwise a fine, well.....
Songs of Hedgerow and Lane
Washington DC: The Law Reporter Publishing Co., 1914. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth gilt, light soil and stains to covers, contents VG, seemingly inscribed to the author's son in law, William H. Whitten, Christmas 1916, but not signed. Doing was apparently an attorney, but beyond that we haven't found.....
The Citizens' and farmers' yearly messenger, or New town & country almanac, for the year of our Lord 1831
Baltimore: John T. Hanzsche, (1830). Paperback. Wraps with woodcut cover, 8.25 inches tall (36) pp. Stains, wear and spotting, good copy, complete.