CHRISTMAS: A Book of Stories Old and New. by Dalgliesh,…

CHRISTMAS: A Book of Stories Old and New. by Dalgliesh, Alice, selected by; Hildegard Woodward, illustrator. < >

CHRISTMAS: A Book of Stories Old and New.

Edition: Later printing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1961, c 1934). Hardcover - A classic book of Christmas stories for children, originally published in 1934 and illustrated throughout by Hildegard Woodward. The first section - Christmas stories and wonder tales - includes 'The Christmas Tree of Good Saint Florentine' by L'Oncle Hansi; 'The Fir Tree' by Hans Christian Andersen; 'Carl Krinken's Christmas Stocking' by Elizabeth Wetherell; 'Toinette and the Elves' by Susan Coolidge; 'The Clocks of Rondaine' by Frank Stockton and more. Other sections are "The First Christmas" with stories by Christina Rossetti, Kenneth Grahame and others; "Christmas in Old Time America" featuring 'Christmas in the Big Woods' by Laura Ingalls Wilder and "Christmas in Other Lands" with stories by Mary Mapes Dodge, Charles Dickens, Rachel Field and others. Includes a section about the stories in this book. 244 pp.

Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in green cloth in a near good dust jacket with a spine label.

Book ID: 88159
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