The Birthday of Little Jesus by Sterling North - 1952

Grosset & Dunlap, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. First English Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrative jacket over illustrative paper covered boards. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy crushing to spine ends. Loss to spine. Some tearing and scuffing to boards. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. First English Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrative jacket over illustrative paper covered boards. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Visible loss to spine ends. Tearing and splits to spine. Scuffing to edges. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Noticeable tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

World Distributers, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. First Published in GB. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with light sunning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed.

World Distributors, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. First Edition Thus. Unpaginated. Red dust jacket over red paper covered boards. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Splits and tearing to spine ends and corners. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. The Birthday of Little Jesus by Sterling North, illustrated by Valenti Angelo, published by Grosset & Dunlap copyright 1952-stated First edition. Hardback story/picture book about the birth of the Lord Jesus has a stain on free front endpaper where a bookplate once was, shows minor wear, and lower part of front of binding has an impression of decoration from the dust jacket which must have gotten wet at some time-overall good to very good with very good, crisp pages. Dust jacket is faded at lower part of front and has some indentations on back-overall basically good and in a Brodart protector. NOT AN EX-LIB!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good to very Good/Good. Illus. by Angelo, Valenti.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1952-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. First edition Grosset & Dunlap 1952, slight edgewear on good cover, dust jacket missing, tight binding, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. Book. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. By the bestselling author of Rascal. Well-kept copy with bright unopened pages. Free of marks or foxing. With gentle duotone illustrations throughout. Crease to front endpage and bindery bubbles to pastedown endpaper. Fading at upper front and rubbing at corner tips. Jacket with chips at top edge, now looking neat in mylar wrapper. Jacket with original price. .

Grosset & Dunlap. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. (shepherds, sheep, mothers and sons)

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First British edition. Beautifully illustrated in hues of blue by Valenti Angelo. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with two separate inch long closed tears to the front panel, some rubbing to the rear panel near the spine.