The Very Real Truth About Christmas
by Harris, Bernice Kelly
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Reisie Lonette. 12mo. 24 pages. A small book measuring 7 1/2 inches tall by about 5 1/4 inches wide. Hardcover with a grey and green pictorial dust jacket, which is not price-clipped. The jacket shows moderate rubbing and wear, and the jacket spine is a bit tanned. There is some browning and foxing on the front and rear paste downs as well as in the gutters. The fore edge of the text block is a little foxed, but the interior of the book itself is clean. Illustrated with several charming drawings. Bernice Kelly Harris (1891-1973) was born in rural eastern Wake County, North Carolina and grew up among farmers. As a youth she absorbed the rural lifestyle of independent folk, baseball games, pig pickin's, Saturday night parties, and Baptist churching. She went to Meredith College in Raleigh and studied at the University of North Carolina, where she was introduced to play writing under Frederick H. Koch, with a focus on folk plays. She wrote several plays, which were published in 1939 under the Federal Writers' Project, and Jonathan Daniels suggested she write a novel. Her first novel, Purslane, was also published in 1939. She wrote several novels and plays, and she was awarded an honorary Litt.D. degree from Wake Forest University in 1959 and from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1960. She was president of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association in 1966 and was active in the North Carolina Arts Council. She taught creative writing at Chowan College in 1963. This is one of two Christmas gift books she wrote. The other, "The Santa on the Mantel," was published in 1964.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049215
- Title
- The Very Real Truth About Christmas
- Author
- Harris, Bernice Kelly
- Illustrator
- Reisie Lonette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1961; Bernice Kelly Harris; Children's Books; Juvenile; Christmas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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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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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.