CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS BOOKS: THE 1980s

A fine group of approximately 120 volumes (some duplication) of children's Christmas books, various places, 1980–1989, mostly large format and illustrated. Mostly in publisher's bindings and dust-jackets, in fine condition.

Mostly first editions. Among the volumes in this lot are E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nutcracker, 1984, signed by the illustrator, Maurice Sendak; Leslie Bricusse, Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride, 1987, signed by the illustrator, Errol Le Cain; Leo Garfield, Fair's Fair, 1983; Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express, 1985, signed; Jack Gantos, Rotten Ralph's Rotten Christmas, 1984, signed, with a drawing, by the illustrator, Nicole Rubel, on an inserted bookplate; Bernard Stone, A Day to Remember, 1981, signed; Shirley Hughes, Lucy & Tom's Christmas, 1981, signed; Ilse Plume, The Story of Befana, 1981, signed; Gloria Houston, The Year of the the Perfect Christmas Tree, 1988, signed by the illustrator, Barbara Cooney; James Marshall, Merry Christmas, Space Case, 1986; Viktor Rydberg, The Christmas Tomten, 1981; Obren Bokich, A Christmas Card for Mr. McFizz, 1987; Elizabeth Winthrop, A Child is Born, 1983, signed by the illustrator, Charles Mikolaycak; Mikolaycak, Babushka, 1984; Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear, 1984, signed, with a drawing, by the illustrator, Patricia Montgomery Newton; Naylor, Keeping a Christmas Secret, 1989, signed; Katharine Holabird, Angelina's Christmas, 1985; Natalie Savage Carlson, Surprise in the Mountains, 1983; Trinka Hakes Noble, Apple Tree Christmas, 1984, signed; Norma Farber, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem, 1980, signed by the illustrator, Barbara Cooney; Jan Pienkowski, Christmas, 1984; Julia Cunningham, The Stable Rat, 1981; Kimberly Rinehart, The Greatest Gift of All, 1982, illustrated by Georgia Rettmer; Larry L. King, That Terrible Night Santa Got Lost in the Woods, 1981, signed; Virginia Hamilton, The Bells of Christmas, 1989; Rosemary Wells, Max's Christmas, 1986, signed; David Morrell, The Hundred-Year Christmas, 1983, no. 644 of 700 copies signed by the author and by the illustrator, R. J. Krupowicz, Shirley Climo, The Cobweb Christmas, 1982, signed by the illustrator Joe Lasker, Madeleine L'Engle, The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas, 1984, Carolyn Croll, The Little Snowgirl, 1989, signed.