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Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1941. [12] p.: color illustrations; 33 cm. (13 inches). Color illustrated paper covers included in page count. The illustrator, Ethel Hays, portrays a happy family with four children; the father appears in a striking pair of green pajamas with white polka dots. In Very Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled; small, old dampstain on front cover along spine, not effecting image; fore-edge of back cover lightly creased with ½-cm. (¼-inch) tear; upper corners lightly creased; light vertical crease through the middle throughout; pages are clean, bright, and tight. A scarce and nicely illustrated version of the classic Christmas poem.. Very Good-. Illus. by Hays, Ethel.
New York: Christian Herald, 1896. Compiled and edited by Margaret E. Sangster. 320 p.: title vignette; 15 cm. (6 inches). Green cloth cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Six spine compartments, with red background on second and fourth. No dust jacket. In Very Good- Condition: some red and gilt on spine rubbed away; corners bumped and rubbed; 1-inch tear from upper edge of pp. 65-66, without loss of text; light soiling to fore-edges and upper edges of pages; otherwise pages are clean and tight.. Very Good-.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Publishers, 1893. 280 p.: double-page chromolithographed frontispiece of Santa in red robes in a sled pulled by two reindeer, many full-page and in-text black-and-white illustrations; 27 cm. (10½ inches). Red cloth with gilt, green, and black spine and cover titles and illustration. Cover illustration shows Santa in a sled pulled by six reindeer. Includes a long poem "Where Santa Claus Lives, and What He Does." In addition there are many popular children's stories as well as less common works: "Frisky the Squirrel," "Hector, the Dog," "Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat," and "The Robin's Christmas Eve," and (unattributed but apparently produced for McLoughlin Bros.) "The Enchanted Fawn" and the poems "The Frog and the Mouse." Front free endpaper bears gift inscription dated Christmas 1894. In Very Good Condition: slightly cocked; cover is slightly soiled; gilt is somewhat rubbed, but largely intact; edges lightly rubbed; hinges are weak, but joints are solid; pages are clean and tight.. Very Good.
New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1908. At foot of front cover: "Mounted on Linen." [14] p.: 6 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 27 cm. (10½ inches). Chromolithographed covers on linen, with illustration of Victorian family in front of Christmas tree on front cover. Copyright statement of 1908 on front cover; this is not the earlier edition of this story by McLoughlin Brothers, which features a different cover illustration. Page count includes inside of both covers. Red, circular label for G.A. Schwarz, toy seller, Philadelphia, on foot of last page of text. In Very Good- Condition: cover soiled; edges rubbed; loss of paper along spine; lower corners of pages are slightly creased; pages are clean and tight. Illustrations are bright.. Very Good-.