Told under the Christmas Tree: An Umbrella Book
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, jacket chipped, tattered and price-clipped.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Macmillan. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, jacket chipped, . tattered and price-clipped.. 1950. Third Printing. Hardcover. Illustrations by Caldecott Medalists Maud and Miska Petersham. Pictorial light blue cloth binding. Introduction by Ruth Sawyer. A collection of 58 stories, poems and nursery rhymes about Christmas, and a few about Hannukah by a variety of authors, including Sara Teasdale, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Rachel Field, Ludwig Bemelmans, Louisa Alcott, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Eleanor Farjeon, Marguerite de Angeli, Kate Seredy, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Joyce Kilmer, Christina Rossetti, and Emma Lazarus. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31470
- Title
- Told under the Christmas Tree: An Umbrella Book
- Illustrator
- Maud Petersham; Miska Petersham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, jacket chipped, tattered and price-clipped.
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Christmas Stories, Holiday Stories, 1950s Children's Books, Maud And Miska Petersham
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christmas; Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
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.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...