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1727CAT000162Dublin: J. Watts 1727. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary paneled calf corners worn recently rebacked in calf. Introduction by Richard Bradley preface subscriber list. Scattered browning endpapers discolored generally clean internally.<br/><br/>The first English edition was London 1725 the first French was 1709. A great deal of information on food and drink as well as gardening weights and measures destruction of vermin bee keeping etc. Attractive in-text illustrations scattered throughout. Size: Folio. 2-volume set complete. Previous owner's book-plate on front pastedown. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Gardening. Inventory No: CAT000162. J. Watts hardcover books
1915228331New York Cupples & Leon ca. 1915. 1915. Small 8vo. Illustrated with color plates. Original white leatherette boards with color design of bells holly berries and holly leaves. Very good. 16 pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. Very Good. New York, Cupples & Leon, ca. 1915. hardcover books
1922131863Oxford: Malone Society 1922. hardcover. very good. Black & white illustrations. 3pp. facsimile 288pp. small 4to cloth-backed boards; corners bumped occasional pencilling. Oxford: Malone Society Reprints/Oxford UP 1922. Very good.<br/><br/> Malone Society unknown books
1843BBO14<p>One of 1000 copies printed it was sold for one shilling each a hefty price at the time the concept suggested by Sir Henry Cole who is best remembered as the intellectual designer of the Victoria & Albert Museum and responsible for the modern British postal system. However because the central design depicted feasting and drinking as designed by <b>John Calcott Horsley</b> the card was attacked by the Temperance League and thought to promote drunkenness so it was suppressed soon after publication and there are believed to be less than 30 examples thought to survive. The 2nd Christmas card did not get issued until three years later in 1846.<br /></p><p>The two side panels on the card illustrate images of the <i>Christmas Spirit of giving alms to the poor</i> feeding and clothing the needy. Its release literarily coincided the same week with the publication of Dickens' <i>A Christmas Carol</i> and certainly helped perpetuate the celebration of the holiday.</p><p>Printed on one side this is possibly a salesman's sample copy as an ink notation on the reverse side indicates the wholesale cost of buying multiples. It is also amongst the very best examples that survive.</p> [Joseph Cundall for Henry Cole, December books
1940811931940. CHRISTMAS. THREE CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS. n.p. Longacre Press 1940. Reprinted from Hamilton Wright Mabie's "Book of Christmas" text by T. K. Hervey. unpag. One of 350 copies unnumbered. 16mo. quarter red cloth over gilt speckled paper covered boards with red and silver paper label on front cover. Fine in a chipped glassine dust jacket. Origins of the Christmas Tree the Christmas Card and the Yule Clog. Log. unknown books
193228713London: Chiswick Press 1932. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Tall 8vo. A handsome copy in brown buckram binding. Number 42 of five hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by Benson. 67 pp. Beautifully printed at the Chiswick Press and with a lovely frontispiece by Clare Leighton and with a foreword by Geoffrey West. Published as No. 11 of the Furnival Books. Chiswick Press unknown books
194530304Hartford: The Prospect Press 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall hardbound 8vo. 77 pp. Bookplate from The Cae Lockwood & Brainard Company afixed to the front inside pastedown. A collection of beautiful Christmas stories set in the San Francisco Bay Area. Very good clean condition. The Prospect Press hardcover books
193130374Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated boards. 26 pp. A christmas story by Morley with decorations by Howard Willard. First separate publication. Very good copy. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
194913135New York: Curt Valentin 1949. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Correct first printing of this attractive illustrated book by Shahn. A very good copy in string-tied wrappers. This copy nicely INSCRIBED by Shahn on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Curt Valentin paperback books
1849264785London: Richard Bentley 1849. hardcover. very good. VOLUME I ONLY. xxxiv 354pp. small 8vo rebound in green library cloth minor penciling on title page. London: Richard Bentley 1849. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Richard Bentley unknown books
182765603Montreal Canada: Printed at the Herald Office 1827. Disbound pamphlet. 20.5 cm. 44pp. Title page detached but present. <br/><br/> Printed at the Herald Office unknown books
101946hardcover. near fine/near fine. 407pp. 8vo blue cloth d.w. Harmondsworth England 1986. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> unknown books
1800182151800. Original Victorian Christmas and New Year's cards dating the the late 19th century. Generally single sheets folded about 3.25 x 5 inches to a little larger The fronts are chromolithographed; two have an applied fringe. Friendship verses. Faint soil but generally in very good. condition and unused. Two are Christmas cards three New Year's cards. unknown books
1885233875Boston: J. Stilman Smith 1885. First separate publication of this work. 1 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers printed in red and black slight cover toning. A fine copy. First separate publication of this work. 1 vols. 12mo. On the verso of the front wrapper is printed "A Christmas Present from Edward E. Hale". On the cover Hale has written in the top margin "Hon. H. C. Lodge" ; further down by the printed line "By Edward E. Hale D.D." Hale has crossed out the "By" and "D.D." and written "With the best wishes of". This story by the the author of The Man without a Country is followed by the three stanzas of Hale's reverential "Boston Club Song". A splendid association copy. J. Stilman Smith unknown books
WRCLIT81808San Francisco: California Historical Society nd. Sq. octavo. Cloth with pictorial vignette on upper board. Frontis. One of 1000 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. California Historical Society hardcover books
1937WRCLIT57236Portland ME: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press 1937. xxvi114pp. Large octavo. Cloth and boards printed label. Small gilt oval bookplate toe of spine bumped a bit otherwise very good with the prospectus a bit frayed laid in. First edition. One of fifteen hundred copies printed. With an introduction on the history and diversity of the genre. The checklist is ordered by imprint. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press hardcover books
193718263New York: Simon and Schuster 1937. First edition. Selected and Arranged by Castagnetta and Illustrated by van Loon in color. 1 vols. 4to. From the library of author-arranger CASTAGNETTA In a special publisher's PRESENTATION BINDING of full red morocco gilt-lettered spine marbled endpapers initialled in pencil on flyleaf "S & S". van Loon Hendrik. First edition. Selected and Arranged by Castagnetta and Illustrated by van Loon in color. 1 vols. 4to. Author's Copy in Presentation Binding with an Unbound Signature. with: An unbound signature the first from the book comprising 16pp. printed on the recto of one large sheet folded four times. <br/><br/>A unique copy of this delightful Christmas Carol book with its lively van Loon illustrations. Simon and Schuster unknown books
193618010212San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal 1936. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. Starr Judson. One of 200 copies quarto size 16 unnumbered pp. with holiday card and ms translation laid in. An edition of this Christmas poem by Canadian poet Louis Frechette 1839-1908 the poet-laureate of Quebec first published as a poetical preface to the author's Noel au Canada in 1900. With small "Holiday Greetings" card signed by Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal; also with a ms translation of the poem appears to be in the hand of Theodore Lilienthal which is printed in the original French text in the book. Printed for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal for Christmas 1936 by the Grabhorn Press. Lilienthal his wife Frances and Edith Van Antwerp operated The Quercus Press from 1937 to 1940. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original brown paper wrappers title stamped in dark-brown to upper wrapper coloured frontispiece of Virgin and Child by Judson Starr title page in black and blue four-line hand-drawn blue initial capital letter opens the poem; Lutetia type machine made paper quarto size 11" by 7.5" 16 unnumbered pp. including blanks limited edition one of 200 copies this copy out of series.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy internally bright and free of prior owner markings covers are clean no chipping or rubbing to wrappers no foxing or age-toning; like new.<br/><br/>____CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography no. 260.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal unknown books
192527745New York: Privately Printed 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wide hardbound 8vo. A 23 pp Christmas memory. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Originally published in magazine form by The Atlantic Monthly in September 1925. Separate hardbound keepsake edition. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1952. A very good example. Also laid in to this copy is a handwritten note from the author dated The Night Before Christmas which describes the book and the influence it has had at least as perceived by the author. Privately Printed hardcover books
194331682York Pennsylvania: The Maple Press Company 1943. 1st edition. White cloth spine over printed light-blue paper-wrapped boards. Slipcase. A VG copy in a VG slipcase which is split & worn along one seam. 32 6 pp. Illustrated with decorations by Guy Fry. 8vo. 10-1/2" x 7-1/4" <br/><br/>Laid-in is a publisher's printed Christmas presentation slip. The Maple Press Company hardcover books
1935106575<p>Augsburg Publishing House. Large 4to magazine illustrated no page numbers. Covers showing some wear and creasing some chipping and corner folds normal aging; otherwise about very good. This richly illustrated volume includes several tipped in color illustrations.</p> Augsburg Publishing House, books
194522673New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1945. 1st edition. Linen cloth. Pictorial eps. Dust jacket. NF/VG minor wear/1 cm closed tear to top edge of rear panel. vi 98 1 pp. Illustrated in b/w & color by the author. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1489NY RANDOM HOUSE 1964. NY, RANDOM HOUSE, 1964 unknown books
879342nd US President. 1994 Clinton White House Christmas Card. 7" x 5" color. Depicts the Red Room executed in a naive folk art style. In excellent condition. unknown books
879542nd US President. 1997 Clinton White House Printed Christmas Card. 7 x 6" color. Depicts a winter nighttime view of the South Lawn. In excellent condition. unknown books
