Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas Stories
by Hale, Edward E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Erasure mark on front free endpaper, two smudges on page tops, else a clean, tight and bright co
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Erasure mark on front free endpaper, two . smudges on page tops, else a clean, tight and bright copy.. 1909. Later Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Frontispiece engraving of men shoveling a milk can-laden ox cart out of a snow drift. A reprint of this collection of Yuletide stories originally published in 1871, with the authors addition of a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. Hale is best known for his classic short story The Man Without a Country. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37689
- Title
- Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas Stories
- Author
- Hale, Edward E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Erasure mark on front free endpaper, two smudges on page tops, else a clean, tight and bright co
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Christmas Stories, 1870s American Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York State; Christmas;
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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