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Christmas over the Centuries: with original illustrations especially prepared for this volume
by Dickens, VanDyke; Hawthorne, Garland; James, Gaskell; Pope Pius XII
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: The Cuneo Press, Inc., 1957. Hardcover. Good. Red boards with mild shelf wear and age toning . Gold gilt spine lettering. Some age toning inside front and back covers and mellow toning the papers. Top text block gilted. Main text in black print; headers & footers (page numbers) in red print. Side edges uncut. Black and white illustrations throughout. 206 numbered pages. * From the Publisher's Preface, ""The locales of prose tales in this sixteenth annual volume of the Christmas Book range from the mountains of Persia to the fertile fields of our own Middle West."" The stories are written by both British and American authors. The seven stories contained in the volume: ""The Other Wise Man"" by Henry Van Dyke, ""The Seven Poor Travellers"" by Charles Dickens, ""David Swan"" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ""The Return of a Private"" by Hamlin Garland, ""The Red Thing"" by Henry James, ""Christmas Storms and Sunshine"" by Elizabeth C. Gaskell, ""The Christmas Broadcast"" by Pope Pius XII.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000014
- Title
- Christmas over the Centuries: with original illustrations especially prepared for this volume
- Author
- Dickens, VanDyke; Hawthorne, Garland; James, Gaskell; Pope Pius XII
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Cuneo Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Christmas, Christmas Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christmas Stories and Crafts;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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