Clement Moore. The Night Before Christmas. Charles E. Graham & Company, 1910.
Price: US$14.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Flat, unmarked pages. Darkly age-toned. Cracked at both hinges; cover detached. Pictorial boards scuffed. No DJ. No publication date. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.
Seller: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book cover is heavily soiled with edgewear. Text pages are also soiled. Binding is still fairly tight. Red boards with pictorial pastedown on front. Slightly bowed. No date listed, but generally consiedered to be 1910.
Seller: Shady Grove Book Store, West Branch, MI, U.S.A.
Moore, Clement C.. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Graham & Matlack N. d. ( Ca. 1910 ), 1910.
Price: US$39.44 + shipping
Description: The Night before Christmas, Graham & Matlack, (ca. 1910), first edition thus, some wear to the edges of the corner tips and covers, else a tight vg copy in full color pictorial boards depicting Santa leaning over a snow covered chimney, full bag on his shoulders with the moon rising in the background. Illustrated. Also contains several poems in a section entitled STORIES TRUE AND FANCIES NEW. Product # 0532.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. With ten charming full-page colourplates by Willcox Smith and illustrated and decorative head-pieces which are repeated throughout. Tall 8vo, in the publisher's original blue/black cloth, the upper cover with gilt lettering and a large colour pictorial paste-down, the spine with gilt lettering. ix, 124 pp. A well preserved copy with mellowing to the cloth and spine panel and dulling to the gilt lettering at the spine, some light wear to the extremeties. Internally very pleasing and quite clean and gently mellowed. A WONDERFULLY SELECTED AND ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF VERSES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. Ms. Smith has chosen works by such beloved authors as, R.L. Stevenson, George MacDonald, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lewis Carroll and many, many more. Also included is Clement Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. The first edition is becoming scarce.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Color Frontispiece with Santa Holly Branches & Red Berries on Red & Blue Cap & Long White Beard & Red Nose .HBDJ, 2 bks in 1, 1910, 1st Edition THUS, Early Issue, BK NF+/ DJ GOOD-, AS-IS, 12mo. 32 & 33 pages. Red HB Binding with Cinderella with Long Hair in Green Dress & Prince Kneeling with Shoe has Scuff, rub Wear DJ, Small BRIGHT RED Boards hardcover BK measures 7 1/2 inches tall by 5 3/4 inches wide & Duplicates DJ Ilustration very Nice Condition with Light rub, Wear Cvr & Interior Lighbt Fox, Hardcover bound in red paper-covered boards with the original red pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and worn , Tiny chips Tears edges & Light & Heavy SCUFF Marks to Cinderella btm side of DJ affects btm of I & N in Cinderella ON DJ,and is now in Protectivce mylar. The "Cinderella" side of the book has a couple of abrasions on the jacket with the red surface stripped or rubbed off. The book itself has minimal wear. The inner hinges are secure, and the text is clean. This is an obscure little series of books. The Turnover Books came in only three sets of titles; . Each book has two stories. Small btm front chip to DJ 3/4 X 3/4 in,to Cinderella side & Light Ink Mark TOP RT. CORNER DJ, , IN bk FRONT TURNOVER BOOKS LISTED THRU Little Red Riding Hood & 3 Bears , Color Illustrated Half Title pg of Santa Standing in Red Outfit Trimmed in Black with Matching Hat by His Brown Bag of Toys TITLED IN RED ,EXTREMELY RARE Copy in Original Red Color Dust Jacket of Santa in Red Outfit Trimmed in Black entering white stone Chimney with Big Bag of Toys in Black Bag with His Finger Up to His Nose & when you Turn Over THE DJ, Cinderella seated on Bench in Ragged Green Dress, Red Shoes & Very Long Hair as Prince Kneels with Slipper , Scarce "Turnover" Book Illustrated by John R. Neill, Known for His Illustrations of L. Frank Baum's OZ Books!! Neill Illustrated the OZ BOOKS
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.