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VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARD "MAY THE PEACE OF ALLAH". DECORATED ENVELOPE.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Seller ID: 30510

Binding: In Envelope

Condition: Very Good

Single sheet card (i.e. not a folded card), c1920/30s, with unusual verse. "Christmas Greetings / I pray the prayer the Easterners do, / May the Peace of Allah abide with you / Wherever you stay, wherever you go, / May the beautiful palms of Allah grow; / Through the days of labor and nights of rest, / May the love of sweet Allah make you blest, / So I touch my heart as the Easterners do, / May the Peace of Allah abide with you." Colorful illustration at top of card has a gilt sky, the star over Bethlehem the three kings & their camels with holly below. The card has not been used - ...
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3 VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARDS - 1. CAT. 2. DOG. 3. CHILDREN CAROLLING. WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPES.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Seller ID: 30511

Binding: In Envelopes

Condition: Very Good+

3 unused, single sheet cards (i.e. not folded cards), c1920/30s, each with its original, unused envelope. No manufacturer's markings. 1. Red-ribboned cat - card size 5 1/8" H x 4 1/8" W - with verse: "I wish you / A MERRIE CHRISTMAS / and then the BEST OF YEARS / As full of satisfaction - / As this pussy cat appears!". 2. Tail-wagging dog - card size 5 1/8" H x 4 1/8" W - with verse: "It's just on the tip / of my tongue, to say, / I wish you / A MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY". 3. Children carolling with dog - card size 4 1/2" H x 3 7/16" W - with verse: "A M...
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THE HIGH WORLD.

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1954

Seller ID: 30124

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

113 pp, 9 1/4" H. Orange/brown cloth with white lettering on spine, blue illustration on front board. Blue & white pictorial endpapers, b&w drawings, colour plates. By the author/illustrator of the Madeline books. "High in the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol lived the Amrainer family. They lived in a cabin wedged in among the boulders, and their life was simple and happy. But one day the Amrainers' peaceful existence was disrupted. They had gone down to the little village to spend Christmas with their relatives, the Maybocks, who kept the inn - but as the two families were sitting ...
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MY FATHER AND EDWARD ARDIZZONE: A LASTING FRIENDSHIP.

By: Booth-Clibborn, Edward.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, Patrick Hardy: 1983

Seller ID: 8607

ISBN: 074440018X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

48 pp, 12" H. Beautifully illustrated thoughout in monotone with reproductions of Edward Ardizzone's specially produced Christmas cards. "(A) brief, but warm and personal account by Edward Booth-Clibborn of the long friendship between his father (known professionally as an artist under the name of Augustin Booth) and Edward Ardizzone. They met as art students, though Augustin was several years older than Edward, and remained lasting friends until Augustin died in 1969. The lasting bond of their friendship is the succession of Christmas cards which Edward and Catherine sent out annu...
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS AT MONTICELLO.

By: Boyd, Julian P.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1964

Seller ID: 12689

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

58 pp, 16mo (6 1/4" H), stapled in wraps with self-dust jacket. Oxford University Press 'Seasons Greetings 1964' card laid in. B&w illustrations. A look at Christmas customs and festivities in Colonial and post-Colonial Virginia. Interior - staples rusting lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wrinkling to dust jacket, several areas of color fading on dust jacket - mainly on rear panel.
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KRAMPUS, THE YULE LORD.

By: Brom. (Gerald Brom.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper Voyager: 2012

Seller ID: 30610

ISBN: 006209565X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

357 pp, 9 1/2" H. Colour pictorial endpapers, b&w illustrations. "One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets back to earth, a magical sack that thrusts the down-on-his-luck singer into the clutches of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus. But the lines between good and evi...
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THE SPECIAL LITTLE DONKEY.

By: Brooks-Hill, Helen.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Canada, Privately Printed: 1969

Seller ID: 30402

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated (approx. 24 pages), 9 3/4" H. Black & white and blue & black illustrations. The little donkey who was present at the nativity, bore Mary & Jesus on their flight to Egypt and Jesus on his entry in Jerusalem, tells his story. Interior - small 1969 Christmas greeting in ink on first page. Exterior - some minor soft wrinkling on covers, some very light brown speckles on front cover illustration/title area, a few small areas of light browning marks on covers.
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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

By: Burton, Tim.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Hyperion Books for Children: 1993

Seller ID: 25198

ISBN: 1562824112

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Unpaginated, oblong (9 1/4" H x 11 1/4" D). First edition (stated and with complete number line). Illustrated in Tim Burton's characteristicly eerie style. "In all the world, there's no place like Halloweenland and Jack Skellington is Halloween's most important figure. It's Jack who devises Halloween's most macabre tricks and frights, and he's done it year after year with delight. But this year, something isn't quite right: Jack has grown bored with the usual Halloween pranks, and the joy of seeing shock and horror on people's faces has faded. One night, while out for a walk in ...
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THE BIGGEST DAY OF THE YEAR: THE OLD-TIME SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CONCERT.

By: Charyk, John C.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Western Producer Prairie Books: 1985

Seller ID: 28539

ISBN: 0888331711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

134 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "The old-time Christmas concert is remembered almost unanimously by participants and onlookers alike as 'the biggest day of the year'. Every phase of the concert is featured in this wonderful book: from the first rehearsals to the unpredictably disastrous moments on concert night; from the welcome speech by a nervous preschooler to the climax of the program, the nativity pageant. The monologues and drills, costume songs and plays, gymnastics displays and minstrel acts are recalled vividly by participants in their own words and complemented by pri...
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Image for MR. PICKWICK'S CHRISTMAS. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PICKWICKIANS' CHRISTMAS AT THE MANOR FARM, OF THE ADVENTURES THERE; THE TALE OF THE GOBLIN WHO STOLE A SEXTON, AND OF THE FAMOUS SPORTS ON THE ICE.

MR. PICKWICK'S CHRISTMAS. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PICKWICKIANS' CHRISTMAS AT THE MANOR FARM, OF THE ADVENTURES THERE; THE TALE OF THE GOBLIN WHO STOLE A SEXTON, AND OF THE FAMOUS SPORTS ON THE ICE.

By: Dickens, Charles. Introduction by George Alfred Williams.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson:

Seller ID: 30645

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

149 pp, 9 3/8" H. No date, but c1906. Green cloth with gilt lettering/borders and blind stamped decoration on spine and front board, pasted down illustration on front board. 10 full-page illustrations (including frontispiece - all present), plus additional smaller illustrations throughout the text. Extracts from "The Pickwick Papers". Contents: Chapter I: A good-humoured Christmas chapter, containing an account of a wedding, and some other sports beside, which although in their way, even as good customs as marriage itself, are not quite so religiously kept up, in these degenerat...
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CHRISTMAS EVE AT TOPMAST TICKLE.

By: Duncan, Norman.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Fleming H. Revell: 1910

Seller ID: 13651

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

32 pp, 7 1/2" H, stapled in wraps with self-flaps, with additional twisted silk cord to spine. B&w frontispiece, decorative border to pages. "A selection from 'Doctor Luke of Labrador' with additions." The story of how Dr. Luke helps Santa Claus bring Christmas to a remote Labrador home. Interior - very light browning to pages, clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wrinkling, light wear on spine, minor soiling, tiny chip at top/bottom of spine, slight fading to cover edges.
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THE BIRTHDAY: A MERRY TALE WITH MANY PICTURES.

By: Fischer, Hans.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World: 1954

Seller ID: 29621

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated, oblong (8 7/8" H x 12 3/4" D). Copyright date of 1954, but later printing with price of $4.50 on dust jacket. Endpapers with charming pattern of kittens and balls of wool, colour illustrations throughout by the author/illustrator of "Pitschi". "In a clearing in the forest lived old Lisette with her animals. There was a rooster, eight rabits, and one goat. Happiest of them all were the cats, Mauli and Ruli, and the little dog Bello, because they were allowed to sleep in the house at night and to help their beloved Lisette with the housework. On her seventy-si...
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Image for THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1955, No. 6081A, Vol. 227 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1956, No. 6126A, Vol. 229 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1959, No. 6274A, Vol. 235. 3 ITEMS.

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1955, No. 6081A, Vol. 227 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1956, No. 6126A, Vol. 229 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1959, No. 6274A, Vol. 235. 3 ITEMS.

By: Gilbert, Anthony; Macardle, Dorothy; Bucke, Marion; Bryant, Arthur, Sir; Laver, James; Aickman, Robert; Muir, Marie, et al.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Illustrated London News:

Seller ID: 30178

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

3 Christmas Numbers of The Illustrated London News (1955, 1956 & 1959), 14 1/2" H x 10 1/4" W. Christmas 1955 - 56 pp, articles include: Trafalgar from the French Point of View: The Report of Captain Lucas; "Give me a ring" by Anthony Gilbert; Art in cap and bells: Trompe-l'oeil masterpieces designed to cheat the eye by their astonishing effect of reality; Double spread Queen Elizabeth II by Pietro Annigoni; 4 full page colour portraits "The Beauty of early Girlhood"; 2 full page colour illustrations - "Fairy-tale creatures (1. Hans Andersen, 2. Brothers Grimm), by...
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FRANK HARRINGTON'S KRISTMISS BOOK. (CHRISTMAS.)

By: Harrington, Frank. Edited by Nelson Ball.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.P., Mercury Press: 1993

Seller ID: 20089

ISBN: 155128006X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Unpaginaged, oblong (7 5/16" H x 11 3/16" D). B&w photographs by Reuben R. Sallows (1876-1937) who worked in the Goderich area. "In 1860, 'Frank Harrington' settled in the Queen's Bush, where he began farming on 100 acres of land. For forty years he kept a diary, making one entry annually on Christmas Day. It is from this document that his story emerges, rich with the events of pioneer life, its joys and excitements, its hardships and tragedies." The editor has attempted to track down the original source of the diary which was printed previously in a newspaper and society jour...
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HENRY MORGAN & CO. LIMITED 1908 CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE.

By: Henry Morgan & Co.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hudson's Bay Company: 1992

Seller ID: 27331

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 9 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings. A reproduction of the 1908 Christmas catalogue of the prestigious Montreal department store, Henry Morgan & Co. Includes jewellery, furs, dolls, roller skates, footballs, games, Indian novelties, glassware, umbrellas, etc., etc. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - slight fading on spine area.
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THE WILLOWS AT CHRISTMAS.

By: Horwood, William.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, HarperCollins: 1999

Seller ID: 27025

ISBN: 0002256045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

245 pp, 8vo (8" H). Colour and b&w illustrations. "The Willows at Christmas is the crowning achievement of William Horwood's masterly cycle of sequels to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows." Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds.
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CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM.

By: Hutchison, Ruth.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 12690

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

31 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), stapled in wraps. Lino-block illustrations. Oxford University Press greeting slip for 1958 laid in. Looks at Christmas celebrations among the Moravians (with some history of the sect) in Colonial and post-Colonial Pennsylvania. Interior - one staple lightly rusted, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny corner creases, minor soiling on rear cover, minor edge wear.
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OLD CHRISTMAS IN MERRIE ENGLAND.

By: Irving, Washington.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mount Vernon, New York, Peter Pauper Press:

Seller ID: 19902

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

60 pp + colophon, 12mo (7 3/8" H). Green and white illustrations. A lovely depiction of the old customs and traditions of Christmas as celebrated at Bracebridge Hall. Small Christmas gift inscription on free front endpaper, light browning to endpapers, corner crease on page 7/8, light edge wear, book slightly cocked, tiny mark on fore-edge of textblock, minor soiling, one tiny corner bump. Dust jacket is price clipped, has one tiny chip, slight fading to spine color, minor soiling, very light edge wear.
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FOLK DANCE OF EUROPE.

By: Jaffe, Nigel Allenby. Inscribed.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Skipton, Folk Dance Enterprises: 1990

Seller ID: 22160

ISBN: 0946247145

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

344 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). B&w illustrations. Inscribed on dedication page: "To Allen and Margaret With best wishes from Nigel. 15th August, 1990". Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Ethnic and historical background; A little mythology; Circles and chains; Swords, hoops, garlands and sticks; Morris, Christians and Moors, and other battles; Guisers, hobby-animals and mummers; Couple dances and threesomes; Women's and men's dances; Weddings; Maypoles, fires and spirits; Seasonal, work and animal dances; Church, healing, ecstasy and death; Country dance and dancing masters; Concl...
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FROM SAINT NICHOLAS TO SANTA CLAUS.

By: Jones, E. Willis.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, George And Lena Arents / Printed By Philip Reed: 1952

Seller ID: 30392

Binding: Card covers with cord.

Condition: Good

11 pp, 9 3/4" H. Red card with pale yellow cord binding, title label pasted on front cover. Title page continues: "with best wishes for a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year Mr. & Mrs. George Arents 1952". Printed in a limited edition of 400 copies. B&w illustrations, red titles. Section headings: Introduction; The Saint; Gift Bringer; In England; In America; In Print; In Picture. Interior - very light browning at fore-edge of pages, bump at top corner of pages, soft wrinkles in page gutters, otherwise clean and tight with no other previous ownership marks. Exterior -...
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