The Christmas Nightingale: Christmas Stories of Poland by Eric Philbrook Kelly (1884-1960) - 1960

73 pages with frontispiece and illustrations by Marguerite de Angeli. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with dark brown lettering to spine and cover with flower and leaf decoration to cover in original pictorial jacket. Eric Philbrook Kelly was an American journalist, academic and author of children's books. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College and briefly a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He won the 1929 Newbery Medal recognizing his first published book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, as the preceding year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature. (Wikipedia) Condition: Page age toned. Jacket with edge wear with some closed edge tears and small chips else a very good copy in like jacket.