Christmas Story

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Bill Crawford. A masterly combination of Mencken's prose and Crawford's illustrations. A definite (unChristmassy) Christmas treat. All in VG internal order, can and bright. Smart blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Unclipped d/j is toned and lightly worn… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 32pp. Binding variant of darker blue fine weave cloth. Colour pictorial label to front cover, colour illustrated endpapers, colour illustrations in text. (32) pp. Light darkening to gutter of front cover from binding materials, spine very l ightly sunned, else fine. Dust jacket (with Mencken's face complete on rear panel). First Edition. Cloth. Very… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1946 First printing of the stated first edition. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Crawford. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends and corners, else fine. A lovely copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6 x 7 in. Blue cloth boards with color litho. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minimal wear, covers clean but sunned at edges. Binding tight and text very clean and fresh. DJ is VERY GOOD ; price-clipped, extremely clean and nice with mild edge wear. In… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Illustrated by Bill Crawford. 16mo. 31pp. Blue cloth boards with color pictorial inlay on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Spotting on cloth, corners lightly rubbed, else near fine in a near fine age-toned dust jacket with spine ends nicked. This story was first printed in… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1946. First edition, sq. 12mo, pp. 31, [1]; rear hinge starting else very good in the dust-jacket.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1946. Stated first edition, title page dated 1946. Illustrated throughout in both color and black and white. Blue cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, illustrated endpapers, no dustjacket. Some cover wear and rubbing, corners and spine ends lightly frayed, light residue of sticker to lower part of front cover, good hinges, sound… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Cloth with colored plate. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bill Crawford. Small 8vo, blue-gray cloth with gold lettering on spine and colored pastedown label of a bum picking up a cigar, illustrated by Bill Crawford, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Crawford, who has illustrated this charming volume, pictorial endpapers, 31… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1946. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a First Edition with a 2nd state dust jacket. (with the rear illustration of Menchen complete, including the glasses). This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust … Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. M21 .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket and pages toned, jacket . price-clipped.. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with color illustration paste-on on front boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .

Hamburg: Karl Baedeker, 1956. Bound in red flexible cloth with a gold embossed front panel; includes 2 full size, color fold out maps & red cloth bound in bookmark, has light foxing to side edges and is in otherwise near-fine condition. Dustwrapper shows minor wear to panel & spine extremes. 137 pgs.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 31 pages .

Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now in archival… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1946.. First edition.. publisher's cloth with applied paper label, in a dust jacket supplied from another copy.. Spine and edges a little browned; a very good copy in a very good jacket.. Small 8vo,. Inscribed by Mencken to one of the owners of "21" in the year of publication, on the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Illustrated by Bill Crawford. 16mo. 31pp. Blue cloth boards with color pictorial inlay on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Boards bowed with faint foxing, and fraying at the spine ends, very good, lacking the dust jacket. This story was first printed in the *New Yorker*.… Read more about this item

NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1946. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION STATED ON COPYRIGHT PAGE AND ILLUSTRATED BY BILL CRAWFORD D.J. IS PRICED $1.00 (LATER PRNTNGS HAVE HIGHER PRICE) . LIGHT BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND A SQUARE PAPER COLORED ILLUSTRATED LABEL TO THE FRONT… Read more about this item

Pages and illustrations in excellent condition: no tears or marks. Dj is in poor share with some tears, chipping and missing section along spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Very good/poor. 46 oages. Illustrations by Bill Crawford. Blue cloth hardcover with pasted down illustration on the front cover and title on the spine. Color illustrated dust jacket has a large chip on front.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, hardcover. Vg condition in vg dj. Signed by the author on the title page. Covers lightly rubbed; Dust jacket now in a removable mylar protector. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight.