A Christmas Stocking Story by Knight, Hilary - 2003

Hurd & Houghton, 1865. brown cloth with gilt lettering and design, FRONT COVER DETACHED,. chromolithography by Julius Bien, New York, unpaged, 17 leaves, contains six full-color plates (the title and one for each verse of Hopkins' popular hymn) and a seventh for the full text and music., some HEAVY foxing on front plates, spine cover missing. Illus. by Color Plates & b/w/ Drawings. 8vo.More pictures available.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1885. Hard Cover. Good +. Lawson, Lizzie. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, and Griffith, Farran & Co., London. 31, [1] p.: frontispiece and 9 additional full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth spine with brown-and-white lithographed illustrations on green paper over boards. Floral endpapers. "Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg" -- from colophon. No date of publication. Title page and each page of text have small lithographed illustration. Inscription on front free endpaper verso: Margaretta R. Leeds, Christmas 1885. In Good+ Condition: cover is soiled and rubbed; corners of boards are rubbed, but spine is not frayed; front and back free endpapers are detaching; back hinge is weak; some soiling along margins of pages; otherwise pages and illustrations are clean and bright.

7 5/8" X 5 1/4" HC with green boards and picture of mother and child as first appeared in The Chicago Tribune. First thus authentic book expanded edition published by Forbes in 1909. Edges and corners are very worn with a small sticker which says Hope on the cover. The first of the three front end pages has a Christmas greeting from the giver. Twenty two pages with a color border. Last of three pages contains other preachments published in The Chicago Daily Tribune (first page shows how it originally appeared) kind of like an introduction, and also Weekly Issues of Unity. This original book is scarce. I am able to ship this small book first class as standard.

Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards worn,1940 gift inscription on . front flyleaf, jacket lightly soiled and worn.. 1939. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Measures 5x4 inches. Color illustrated boards. The journalist relates a beloved Christmas when she was seven years old, living in a Methodist parsonage in Hamburg, New York, and all the holiday preparations, homemade presents, decorating, feasting, and coziness. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall .

Hurd & Houghton, 1865. brown cloth with gilt lettering and design, FRONT COVER DETACHED,. chromolithography by Julius Bien, New York, unpaged, 17 leaves, contains six full-color plates (the title and one for each verse of Hopkins' popular hymn) and a seventh for the full text and music., some HEAVY foxing on front plates, spine cover missing. Illus. by Color Plates & b/w/ Drawings. 8vo.More pictures available.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1885. Hard Cover. Good +. Lawson, Lizzie. Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, and Griffith, Farran & Co., London. 31, [1] p.: frontispiece and 9 additional full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth spine with brown-and-white lithographed illustrations on green paper over boards. Floral endpapers. "Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg" -- from colophon. No date of publication. Title page and each page of text have small lithographed illustration. Inscription on front free endpaper verso: Margaretta R. Leeds, Christmas 1885. In Good+ Condition: cover is soiled and rubbed; corners of boards are rubbed, but spine is not frayed; front and back free endpapers are detaching; back hinge is weak; some soiling along margins of pages; otherwise pages and illustrations are clean and bright.

London: Alexander Moring Limited . Hardcover. Good +. Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale. 4to, original red cloth, bright paste-on illustration to front cover, very faint foxing to end papers, ink owner's name to ffep otherwise contents clean and with tight binding. With all six double-page and five single page illustrations by Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale.

7 5/8" X 5 1/4" HC with green boards and picture of mother and child as first appeared in The Chicago Tribune. First thus authentic book expanded edition published by Forbes in 1909. Edges and corners are very worn with a small sticker which says Hope on the cover. The first of the three front end pages has a Christmas greeting from the giver. Twenty two pages with a color border. Last of three pages contains other preachments published in The Chicago Daily Tribune (first page shows how it originally appeared) kind of like an introduction, and also Weekly Issues of Unity. This original book is scarce. I am able to ship this small book first class as standard.

Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4