A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good,
- Seller
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Cranston, Rhode Island, United States
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NZ$510.66NZ$204.26
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About This Item
New Directions, Norfolk, Ct. [c1954]. Hard Cover. 32 p.; 18.75 cm. "Lettering by Samuel H. Marsh." "One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen." Tan dust jacket clipped, a bit worn, spine darkened, small closed tear at top edge; Very Good+. Stock#OB801.
Synopsis
A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing. His grandfather gives him an old snow globe as an early Christmas present and starts telling colorful, amusing stories about his childhood Christmases that are shown in flashback.
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- Bookseller
- The Owl at the Bridge
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- OB801
- Title
- A Child's Christmas in Wales
- Author
- Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Ct.
- Date Published
- ©1954
- Keywords
- Christmas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Holidays and Festivals;
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We continue to list reference works, Machiavelli, art history, bibliographies, and Italian literature from our private collections. We are happy to discuss discounts for bulk purchases.
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