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(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, as issued. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450), this being one of the odd-numbered copies issued in England.
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AUGGIE WREN'S CHRISTMAS STORY
by AUSTER, Paul
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AUGGIE WREN'S CHRISTMAS STORY
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(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, as issued. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. Copy #96 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450 of which 150 were signed), this being one of the even-numbered copies issued in the United States.
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CAROL
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Concord: Ewert, (1988). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. J. J. Lankes. Nicely printed poem with an illustration reproduced from an original woodcut by J. J. Lankes. Of a total edition of 436, this is one of only 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in wrappers.
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THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO [FOR THE TIME BEING]: CARBON COPY OF A TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH CHORAL SETTINGS
by AUDEN, W. H
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wraps. Good and possibly unique. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in an unknown hand. There were two early typescripts for the poem, neither typed by Auden. One was double-spaced and the other single-spaced. This version is the latter which is the second of the two typescripts that Auden arranged to be prepared for Benjamin Britten, who he hoped would set the poem to music. Auden seems to have sent two copies to Britten to be sure that one got there during wartime. One is in the Britten-Pears library; this is the other. An interesting typescript differing from the published poem in a number of respects. Choral parts are assigned to the speeches by voice. In Part 3, "The Temptation of St. Joseph," the text for the chorus differs from the published…
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A CHRISTMAS SERMON
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers. Very Good. Cloth-backed boards; 23 pages. First Separate Edition, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press.
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CHRISTMAS
by ROOSEVELT, Eleanor
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. A superb copy! Fine in a Fine dustwrapper in the apparently original, and as far as we can tell, unrecorded pale blue envelope, which has a number of tears but seems to be virtually complete. Fritz Kredel. Decorated boards with matching dustwrapper. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. A scarce title by this beloved First Lady, especially so when SIGNED by her, as this copy is on the half-title page.
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CHRISTMAS WITH THE CRATCHITS
by PRITCHETT, V. S
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(Berkeley): Hart Press, (1964). First Edition. Printed wraps. Near Fine. Victor Anderson. Chapbook in red printed wraps; illustrated by Victor Anderson. One of 155 copies (limitation not stated) printed as a Christmas greeting with slip from the Harts laid in.
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A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
by CAPOTE, Truman
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New York: Random House, [1966]. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in the original Fine mylar dustwrapper and a close to Fine slipcase with the gold spine label intact. Capote's touching tribute to his beloved distant cousin and caretaker, Miss Sook Faulk. "As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes." Copy #439 of 600 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page.
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COLONEL CARTER'S CHRISTMAS
by SMITH, F. Hopkinson
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Backstrip darkened, frayed along edge. Still Very Good. F. C. Yohn. Decorated paper-covered boards with yapped edges; xiv, 159 pages. Illustrated with color plates by F. C. Yohn. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Smith.
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GOOD SAMARITANS
by COPPARD, A. E
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[New York], 1934. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Victor Candell. Plain brown wraps with a printed label extending across both covers. Privately Printed at Christmas 1934 for Albert Parsons Sachs by the Spiral Press with drawings by Victor Candell. Stated limitation of 110 copies, this copy unnumbered.
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A PRAYER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS
by BENET, Stephen Vincent
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n.p.: [The Orange Mountain Private Press], (Christmas 1949). First Edition. Wraps. Covers lightly soiled. Near Fine and obviously very scarce. Heavy light beige wraps (6" x 9-1/4") with the author's name printed on the front; 8 pages. One of only 15 copies printed of this prayer of common faith written by Benet in 1942.
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SIGNED CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARD
by ELIOT, T. S. (Barnett FREEDMAN)
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(London): (Faber and Faber), [1946]. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Barnett Freedman. One sheet folded into fours (6-3/4" x 9-1/2") drawn and lithographed by Barnett Freedman "for directors and members of Messrs Faber & Faber to send to their friends," printed by the Curwen Press. SIGNED by T. S. Eliot beneath the greeting inside. The cover depicts the Mother and Child below the legend "et in terra pax." The second Christmas card commissioned by Faber & Faber in a series that was carried through until 1965, the first five being by their leading illustrator, Barnett Freedman. Although there is no envelope or other indication present, this card was sent to Peter Mayer, a scholar who was a published author with Faber & Faber.
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SKETCHES OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS, DISCOURSES AND ESSAYS: SIGNED by the author of "The Night Before Christmas"
by [MOORE, Clement] BROUGHAM, Henry Lord
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Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1839. First American Edition. Hardcover. Mild toning to paper; light wear to cloth. Near Fine. Two volumes in publisher's original stamped cloth with paper spine labels. Both volumes with the ownership SIGNATURE on the title pages "C. C. Moore" by Clement C. Moore, the author of "The Night Before Christmas." On the front pastedown of each volume is the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Also tipped to the pastedown of the first volume is an old catalog description of these books.
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THESE HOPES OF HEAVEN
by COPPARD, A. E
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n.p.: [Blue Moon Press], [1934]. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Yellow wraps decorated by Pearl Binder. Privately Printed in January 1934 for Albert Parsons Sachs by the Blue Moon Press Ltd. in an edition of 150 copies.
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THREE ACES. Jim Todd's Episode in Social Euchre. A Poem and A Denial
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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(Westport, CT): (Robin and Marian MacVicars), (1929). First Edition. Wraps. The front and rear leaves detached and loose; the fragile paper chipped at the bottom edge with the detached pieces present and not affecting any text. Good only but quite uncommon. Stiff rust-colored stapled wraps printed in black; [8] pages including covers, the rear cover blank. Stated limitation of only 50 copies printed as a Christmas greeting for this poem by Mark Twain, "now for the first time published in book form." BAL 3549 states that this was actually published in New York in 1930.
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