The Spirit of Christmas
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. Good/Good. 16mo. 59 pages. Hardcover bound in brown paper-covered boards with a brown printed dust jacket. The jacket is worn and stained but complete. The binding of the book shows little wear. Early owner's inscription on the front flyleaf reads, "For Mrs. Gibson, with Christmas greeting from Francis L. Wheat." Scarce in dust jacket.
Synopsis
It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom. It helps one to feel the supremacy of the common life over the individual life. It reminds a man to set his own little watch, now and then, by the great clock of humanity which runs on sun time.But there is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow-men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness - are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040594
- Title
- The Spirit of Christmas
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- 1924; Henry Van Dyke; Christmas; Ministers; Holiday; Inspirational; Fiction; Short Story.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Christian Spirituality & Living;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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