Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1934. Hardcover. First edition thus, 1934--one of 300 unnumbered copies. Hardcover with gilt title on spine, gilt top edge, 107 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, minor ex-library treatments (bookplates on the front endpapers, small library stamps on a couple of pages), no dust jacket.....
Kensington: The Cayme Press / Philip Sainsbury, 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. 1/350. Quarto, cloth hardbound, 68 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, owner's inscription on the front pastedown, light foxing/soil/discoloration to some pages of the text, some discoloration to the covers too (including sun-struck spine), a bit.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, Press of A. Colish, 1940. Hardcover. No. 1549 of 1950 copies, quarto, cloth-backed decorative boards, fine copy. One of the 37 volumes published between 1939-1941 of the plays, all designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the press of A. Colish.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. Paperback. Paperback in Doubleday Christmas folding wrapper, 1971, octavo, 139pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of toning to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Folding cardboard wrap near fine with mild soil and wear.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. Hardcover. Second edition, 1825 (with additions), first to have the frontispiece by Cruikshank. 8vo, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, with very mild wear - VG plus copy. 226 pp, very humorous verse - the Irish are frequent foils.
Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, C. 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. 12mo, green cloth lettered in red, in dust jacket, 55 pp, book very good or better, rare dust jacket good with some general light soil and light shelfwear and loss. A classic Christmas story.
London: Ackermann, 1828. Hardcover. (1828). 12mo, original full green calf, raised bands, gilt spine rules and lettering, frontispiece, 418 pp., ads, some engraved plates. Very good, minor rubbing, owner's small namestamp to endpaper, and embossed Wedgwood style ownership page inscribed 'Miss Mary Strang' in a contemporary hand. Includes a variety.....
Hartford, CT: S. Andrus and Son, 1845. Hardcover. 1845. Hardcover, 12mo. in original full dark green leather, gilt titles, all edges gilt. 268pp. engraved title and frontis. Very good. Rubbing, surface loss to leather spine ends, corners, and along outer joints. Front inner hinge cracked but holding, ownership signature on.....
Long Acre: Odhams Press, ca. 1940s. First edition. Hardcover. ca. 1940s. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in blue cloth, dust jacket. 319pp. over 300 illustrations by well known artists, including E. Prescott, May Smith, Joyce Mercer, Alfred Kerr, Lola Onslow, et al. Very good in good dust jacket. Chipping to spine.....
New York: The Century Co., 1908. Hardcover. Very good, light wear and soil. The copy of Mabel Narcissa Cox, the wife of Frank A. Vanderlip, a well known NY banker noted for having played a large part in the founding of the Federal Reserve, and for establishing the first Montessori.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good with minor wear, jacket good with wear, tanning, slight loss.
London: Smith, Elder, 1850. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1850, fine copy in full crushed golden brown calf gilt, by Wallis, 87 pp, 2 pp ads, frontispiece, title page in color, with 13 color plates in addition. A lovely copy of one of Thackeray's Christmas books.
Sierra Madre, CA: F. A. Pagenkopf, C. 1924. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 7.25 inches, yellow boards with color pictorial onlay, very good with light wear and soil, light straining to rear inner hinge, in original spiderweb glassine dust jackdet that is somewhat worn and chipped. 7 mounted color plates.....
Sierra Madre, CA: F. A. Pagenkopf, C. 1924. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 7.25 inches, yellow boards with color pictorial onlay, good with light wear, especially at spine head. 7 mounted plates and some funny verses.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1978. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by Tudor on the titlepage. First edition, 1978. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 52 pp., illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket, light rubbing to the tips of the.....
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1855. Hardcover. Published 1855, large 8vo, deluxe publisher's decorative leather binding with gilt borders, Grecian urn image at center of front and rear panels, gilt decorated spine, 391 pp, 16 steel engraved plates. Very good, light rubbing to binding's joints and corners, inscription from.....
Chicago: Cuneo Press, 1970. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, finely bound in full deep red morocco gilt, very good or better, slight mellowing to paper tone. Prints a number of stories including Twain's One Million Pound Note, ends with Pope Paul VI's Christmas Message, a lovely book, hardly ever seen in the.....
Boston: Otis, Broaders, 1846. Hardcover. 8vo, embossed deep red full leather, heavily gilt decorated spine, very good, light rubbing and wear. 296 pp, illustrated with engraved plates.
Boston: L. Prang, c. 1863. Paperback. C. 1863, shape book measuring 7 x 2.5 inches, 16 pp, color pictures, good to very good with short repaired tear to front cover, hardly visible.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 4.25 inches, silver decorated wraps, good with some wear and creasing to covers, 16 pp, a few woodcut illustrations, recounting in "creative nonfiction" ways a narrative about shopping in Pittsburgh during the holidays. RARE, OCLC locates copies at the Heinz History.....
Boston: L. Prang, C. 1889. Stiff wraps, 7 x 4.75 inches, 9 stiff leaves, printed on rectos only, with 4 chromolithograph landscapes and other pages printing the text in brown-tone. Remarkably fine copy with some minor discoloration to rear cover. No copies located by Worldcat in institutions, and one of.....