Christmas from The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

New York: Harper & Bros, 1899. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Slim 16 mo. (4 1/2" x 6") in maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Frontis illustration. xii+ 74 pp. Second edition. Generally fine. Van Dyke's story of the Fourth Wise Man who visited the Christ Child in Bethlehem.

New York: Scribners, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Slim 16 mo. (4 1/2' x 7") in green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt and fore edge uncut. 59 pp. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Very good, front gilt bright, modest fade to the spine. Tasteful vintage bookplate front pastedown.

New York: Rizzoli, 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong hardcover in green and red cloth lettered in silver and with cut-out cover showing the color illustration on the front endpaper. 96 pps. with index. A fine, fresh, unused example. Illustrated with vintage black and white and contemporary color photographs and featuring four cellophane "windows". One of the scarcest and most… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Stuart, Tabor & Chang, 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Color illustrated hardcovers. Fine; issued without dust jacket. Special 2001 collectible ornament in poscker at rear. Collection of Christmas images from Rodrigue's Blue Dog Chrismas series of limited ediiton 10-color hand-pulled large silk screen prints that had been issued with a150-piece limitation between 1998 and 2000.

New York: Dutton, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Fine (rem. stripe inner top edge) in fine dust jacket. Certainly a unique, imaginative take on the whole Santa Claus-North Pole thing--- a two-foot-three-inch, 1300 year old elf, Gumdrop Coal (one of Santa's riginal elves), is framed for murder. He's disillusioned with parents… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: I.K. Funk, 1878. Hardcover. Good. First edition thus, part of the publisher's "Standard Series". No date but the front free endpaper bears a small set of ownership initials and the date 1878 (note: OCLC, which located only four copies, attributes it to 1880). Hardcover in brick colored cloth decorated in black and with spine lettering in… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: for George Arents, 1958. Limited ed. Wraps. fine. One of 325 unnumbered copies for friends of Arents. String bound in printed stiff wraps, 8 pp. with tipped in facsimile of an 1890 Christmas poem by Brooks and also a sheet with music and lyrics "A Christmas Carol" by William Self. First page is printed in red… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, 1868. Wraps. Very Good. Blue wrappers printed in black. 4 (adverts) + 56 pp. (final three are adverts). No date (circa 1868-74, " A Girl at A Railway Junction Reply" [1867] on front wrap under author name). About very good, light even soiling to the wraps, small corner chip front and rear covers.… Ler mais sobre este item

Southfield, Mich: The Private Press of Leonard Bahr for Donald Weeks, 1961. Limited ed. Softcover. Fine/fine. One of 150 copies only. 16mo. (10) pp. in cream colored stiff wraps and marbled dust wrapper with title lable. The presentation page, that states "This Copy of The 1961 Christmas Story is given to" has no recipient name written in and… Ler mais sobre este item

tarcher/ penguin, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. mark hoffer. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. 297 pages. Black and white illustrations. Foreword by Santa Claus. The first lady of Christmas tells the story of how, in the 1600s, she and a very brave group of people once saved the treasured holiday from being lost forever. While… Ler mais sobre este item

Cleveland: World Publishing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover in tan cloth stamped in light blue. No date (circa 1940s). A title in the World Juvenile Library. Illustrated endpapers. 231 pp. Color frontispiece and seven additional full page black and white drawings by Corydon Bell. Fine in color illustrated dust jacket featuring the Christmas celebration party at Mr. Fezziwig's from… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Stephen Daye, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover in red cloth stamped in black. Presumed first edition (no statement). xiv+ 395 pp. Illustted with full page engravings. Fine in very good dust jacket. A collection of stories about different people in different lands celebrate Christmas Day. Primarily the stories deal with the religious atmosphere of the holiday… Ler mais sobre este item

Crane Hill Publishers, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/fine. As new in price clipped dust jacket. Slim oversized volume in color illustrated glossy hardcover. 32 pp. Illustrated in color with humorous artwork by Ernie Eldredge. A hilarious take on the classic Christmas poem. Santa visits Bubba and Erlene in their trailer in his down-home sleigh, a jacked up Ford pickup.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Slim hardcover in decorated paper covered boards and half vellum lettered and decorated in blue (differing in design form the dated 1912 edition). No date but probably 1880-1892, with 1892 pencilled Gift inscription front free endpaper. 32 pp.Illustated with full and partial drawings in olive green. Very good, vellum moderately… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition with "Published October 1907" only on copyright page. A beautiful, fine, bright copy. Hardcover in light gray cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in red and green and with a tipped on illustration front cover. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. 143 pp. with borders decorated in green.… Ler mais sobre este item

Privately Printed, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Slim hardcover in light red paper covered boards with gilt and black label front cover. 12 pp., printed in red and black. Privately printed for the Friends of Dr. C. Charles Burlingame [of New York City] , Christmas, 1936. Very goodsmall chip head of the spine. some foxing to the endpapers. Dr.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1890. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in light green linen cloth lined in dark green and lettered in brown. 324 pp. Illustrated with full and partial page engravings. Very good, minor spine fade, minor wear at the extremities. Christmas 1900 gift inscription front free endpaper. A collection of German… Ler mais sobre este item

Marshall Cavendish, 2006. Limited ed. Hardcover. fine. One of 300 specially bound, numbered copies (of which this is No. 128), signed and with small cartouche by illustrator Gennady Spirin. Slim square oversized volume in green faux leather stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 27 pp. Illustrated in color with the striking Spirin illustrations, full page and margins. New in… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Duffield, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slim 12mo. in light gray paper covered boards decorated in blue and lettered in red, over light gray cloth spine. Unpaginated (16 pp) with each page of text featuring a decorated border. Short essay on the origins of Christmas symbols and celebrations from pre-Christian times through the traditions of… Ler mais sobre este item

Aldus Printers, 1955. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Square 12mo in light red cloth lettered in gilt. 33 pp. With six full page drawings by Maria Horvath produced specially for this edition. Fine in original glassine dust wrapper with two nicks to the spine. The colophon page states that this is a limited edition printed on Strathmore Impress paper… Ler mais sobre este item