A Christmas Carol by DICKENS, Charles

wraps. Good and possibly unique. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in an unknown hand. There were two early typescripts for the poem, neither typed by Auden. One was double-spaced and the other single-spaced. This version is the latter which is the second of the two typescripts that Auden arranged to be prepared for Benjamin Britten, who he hoped would set the poem to music. Auden seems to have sent two copies to Britten to be sure that one got there during wartime. One is in the Britten-Pears library; this is the other. An interesting typescript differing from the published poem in a number of respects. Choral parts are assigned to the speeches by voice. In Part 3, "The Temptation of St. Joseph," the text for the chorus differs from the published… Read More

Mexico, 1960.. Mexican Christmas movie poster. 94 cm. x 69 cm. Folded with signs of use, mainly on the edges. Se trata de un cartel de mostrar real de la película. Se doble con signos de uso, principalmente en los bordes.

Augsburg Publishing House MINNEAPOLIS, 1974. HARDBACK NODAUSTJACKET Issued, 1974, STATED 1ST EDITION, NEAR FINE, Green Foil BOX minor wear edge tears, Oversized Pictorial cvr large quarto (approx. 13 X 10) with Black cloth spine, NO JACKET, Type is set in Linotype Caledonia, PRINTED BY PHOTO-OFFSET Lithography ,Color Frontispiece Canadian Christmas watercolor by Garnet Hazard, Ruth L. Dieffenbacher, Hazel Ford, Yggdrasil, mystical tree in Scandinavian Mythology, cartoon story & winter Scene Bk cover by Lee Mero, BILL BURNSON ,Donald Davies, Edmund Kopietz, Audrey Teeple. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Conrad Pickel, Lee Mero.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1895. SCARCE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "Inscribed with best wishes, Henry Van Dyke, Dec. 13, 1922". Very Good Minus, front hinge cracked, cloth covers rubbed and soiled, small chip bottom corner title page, light foxing and toning to end pages. Letters K-W copyright page indicating Oct. 1922 publication for this printing. Uncommon in any printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

McLoughlin Bros., nd (1870s) 1870. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG. NAST, Thomas. 1st Thus. 23.2 x 27.2 cm blue cloth with pictorial pastedown to the front cover, black and gilt stamped decoration and titles to the front and spine and blind stamped decoration to the rear cover. Red stained edges,brown endpapers unpaginated (112) printed on one side of the page only with 24 full page colour lithographs. Six illustrating each tale. The six lithographs in Santa Clause and his Works are by Thomas Nast and are accompanied by 7 black and white illustrations within the text. The boards are very good with a little rubbing to the spine tips, where the cloth has a couple of tiny holes, and corners where the bottom two have been rubbed through. There is also some light marking to the image on the front cover. Internally it is clear that some restoration and repair has been carried out in the past. The text page entitled The Pony in Kindness to Animals has japanese paper repairs to tears to the fore and bottom… Read More

wraps. Good and possibly unique. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in an unknown hand. There were two early typescripts for the poem, neither typed by Auden. One was double-spaced and the other single-spaced. This version is the latter which is the second of the two typescripts that Auden arranged to be prepared for Benjamin Britten, who he hoped would set the poem to music. Auden seems to have sent two copies to Britten to be sure that one got there during wartime. One is in the Britten-Pears library; this is the other. An interesting typescript differing from the published poem in a number of respects. Choral parts are assigned to the speeches by voice. In Part 3, "The Temptation of St. Joseph," the text for the chorus differs from the published… Read More

Augsburg Publishing House MINNEAPOLIS, 1974. HARDBACK NODAUSTJACKET Issued, 1974, STATED 1ST EDITION, NEAR FINE, Green Foil BOX minor wear edge tears, Oversized Pictorial cvr large quarto (approx. 13 X 10) with Black cloth spine, NO JACKET, Type is set in Linotype Caledonia, PRINTED BY PHOTO-OFFSET Lithography ,Color Frontispiece Canadian Christmas watercolor by Garnet Hazard, Ruth L. Dieffenbacher, Hazel Ford, Yggdrasil, mystical tree in Scandinavian Mythology, cartoon story & winter Scene Bk cover by Lee Mero, BILL BURNSON ,Donald Davies, Edmund Kopietz, Audrey Teeple. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Conrad Pickel, Lee Mero.

London: Alexander Moring Limited . Hardcover. Good +. Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale. 4to, original red cloth, bright paste-on illustration to front cover, very faint foxing to end papers, ink owner's name to ffep otherwise contents clean and with tight binding. With all six double-page and five single page illustrations by Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1895. SCARCE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "Inscribed with best wishes, Henry Van Dyke, Dec. 13, 1922". Very Good Minus, front hinge cracked, cloth covers rubbed and soiled, small chip bottom corner title page, light foxing and toning to end pages. Letters K-W copyright page indicating Oct. 1922 publication for this printing. Uncommon in any printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

McLoughlin Bros., nd (1870s) 1870. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG. NAST, Thomas. 1st Thus. 23.2 x 27.2 cm blue cloth with pictorial pastedown to the front cover, black and gilt stamped decoration and titles to the front and spine and blind stamped decoration to the rear cover. Red stained edges,brown endpapers unpaginated (112) printed on one side of the page only with 24 full page colour lithographs. Six illustrating each tale. The six lithographs in Santa Clause and his Works are by Thomas Nast and are accompanied by 7 black and white illustrations within the text. The boards are very good with a little rubbing to the spine tips, where the cloth has a couple of tiny holes, and corners where the bottom two have been rubbed through. There is also some light marking to the image on the front cover. Internally it is clear that some restoration and repair has been carried out in the past. The text page entitled The Pony in Kindness to Animals has japanese paper repairs to tears to the fore and bottom… Read More