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Christmas Grab-Bag
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history: Percy Maylam, The Hooden Horse, an East Kent Christmas Custom, Canterbury, 1909, privately printed, limited to 303 copies; Apolline Flohr, The German Christmas-Eve; or … A Picture of Home Life in Germany, London, [1846]; Christmas; its History, Antiquity, and Amusements, London: George Slater, 1850; John Ashton, A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-tide, London, ca. 1890; Miles & John Hadfield, The Twelve Days of Christmas, London, 1961; W. F. Dawson, Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, London, 1902; Clement A. Miles, Christmas in Ritual and tradition, Christian and Pagan, London, 1912; Gleeson White, Christmas Cards & Their Chief Designers (Extra Number of the The Studio), 1894; [another copy, in publisher's boards]; George Buday, The History of the Christmas Card, London, 1954; Thomas Nast St. Hill, Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race, New York, 1971; Edward Young Cox, The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and Other Festivals, third edition, London, 1871; Charles W. Jones, Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend, Chicago, 1978; Samuel W. Patterson, The Poet of Christmas Eve: A Life of Clement Clarke Moore, New York, 1956; and others.
bibliography: Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, 2 vols., 1983; Nancy H. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography, New Castle, 2002; A Child's Garden of Dreams: An Exhibition of Children's Books … from the Betsey B. Shirley Collection, 1989; William B. Todd and Ann Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955: A Bibliographical History, New York, 1988; Roger S. Wieck, et al., The Hours of Henry VIII, New York, 2000; Walter Klinefelter, Christmas Books, Portland, Maine, 1936, autograph letter signed laid in; Klinefelter, A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books, Portland, Maine, 1937; Klinefelter, More Christmas Books, Portland, Maine, 1938; Michael Slater, The Catalogue of the Suzannet Charles Dickens Collection, 1975; A. S. W. Rosenbach, The Earliest Christmas Books, Privately Printed, 1927, one of 150 copies; and others, including journals and catalogues.
celebrations and customs: Eleanor Roosevelt. Christmas. A Story by Eleanor Roosevelt. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. New York, 1940. Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt to Pat Knopf (most likely the wife of the publisher); Dale Evans Rogers. Christmas is Always. Westwood, New Jersey, 1958; Roy Rogers. My Favorite Christmas Story. Westwood, New Jersey, 1960. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Jan & David | Merry Christmas | Roy Rogers | & Trigger"; and approximately 270 other Christmas books including regional celebrations, cooking, baking, and entertaining, crafts and decorations, and many other aspects of secular and spiritual observances of Christmas.
bibliography: Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, 2 vols., 1983; Nancy H. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography, New Castle, 2002; A Child's Garden of Dreams: An Exhibition of Children's Books … from the Betsey B. Shirley Collection, 1989; William B. Todd and Ann Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955: A Bibliographical History, New York, 1988; Roger S. Wieck, et al., The Hours of Henry VIII, New York, 2000; Walter Klinefelter, Christmas Books, Portland, Maine, 1936, autograph letter signed laid in; Klinefelter, A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books, Portland, Maine, 1937; Klinefelter, More Christmas Books, Portland, Maine, 1938; Michael Slater, The Catalogue of the Suzannet Charles Dickens Collection, 1975; A. S. W. Rosenbach, The Earliest Christmas Books, Privately Printed, 1927, one of 150 copies; and others, including journals and catalogues.
celebrations and customs: Eleanor Roosevelt. Christmas. A Story by Eleanor Roosevelt. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. New York, 1940. Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt to Pat Knopf (most likely the wife of the publisher); Dale Evans Rogers. Christmas is Always. Westwood, New Jersey, 1958; Roy Rogers. My Favorite Christmas Story. Westwood, New Jersey, 1960. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Jan & David | Merry Christmas | Roy Rogers | & Trigger"; and approximately 270 other Christmas books including regional celebrations, cooking, baking, and entertaining, crafts and decorations, and many other aspects of secular and spiritual observances of Christmas.