Search Results: Holidays from Whiting Books

New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slim volume, dark blue cloth. Toning to the endpapers and title page. The dust jacket has minor chipping and heavy rubbing wear to the rear panel. Preserved in a Mylar sleeve. 58 pages, no illustrations other than chapter head decorations. Jacket design by Grace James..

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light wear, bumped corners, previous owner stamp on top-edge of pages. Light edge wear to the dust jacket. A nice collection of contemporary Christmas stories by authors such as Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, and Jane Smiley--27 stories in all..

Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. Book. Illus. by Michael McCurdy. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Light edge wear to book and jacket. The dust jacket also has faint moisture stains at the upper corners of the flaps (both sides), but there is no evidence that it went further. The book and upper corners of the pages are clean with no sign of staining. Signed by the author on the title page. Unpaginated. Children's Christmas story based on the author's mother's (Lucy) childhood Christmas in 1909 in New Hampshire. Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church's Christmas program..

New York: Petroleum Information Corporation, 1952. Book. Illus. by Meg Wohlberg. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. Shelf wear and rubbing wear at the corners and head of the spine. A slight bit of foxing or toning to the title page. Binding is sound. The dust jacket has some large chips and a few edge tears as well as a bit of soiling on the rear panel. Protected now in an archival Mylar sleeve. Unpaginated, but about 18 pages. A parody of Clement Moore's classic, "The Night Before Christmas," by with a Texas twist.Santa Claus, in cowboy hat and boots, delivers presents in a buckboard pulled by horses..