CHRISTMAS HILL by Dern, Peggy - 1946

New York: Arcadia House, 1946. 256 pp. Blue cloth decorated in red on the front panel and spine; red upper edge. Chipped on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and creases around the edges; price clipped; unsigned bookplate on the front free endpaper. Founder and still head of the fabulously successful Marsh Enterprises, she had never denied her grandchildren anything they asked. And they, living their own selfish, quarrelsome lives many hundreds of miles from their grandmother's home in Georgia, had never asked for anything but money... and more money. So it came as quite a shock to them when their grandmother finally put her foot down and demanded that the entire family come to Georgia for a holiday reunion at Christmas Hill, the lovely old estate where they were all born. There would be no more money unless they obeyed, so they went to Christmas Hill for Christmas... and their lives were changed from that day on.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 12mo.