TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: A Visit from St. Nicholas
by Moore, Clement C. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith,
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair condition overall - significant chipping to the paper spine covering, some fading to the covers, and a small peeled spot on
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (1912.). Hardcover -. Fair condition overall - significant chipping to the paper spine covering, some fading to the covers, and a small peeled spot on the front cover - but the contents are in very good condition. Uncommon. . . Early printing. The classic Christmas poem charmingly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith with twelve full page color illustrations, numerous vignettes and line drawings and initial letters. Small oblong format, unpaginated. colored drawings. The second issue of this version, bound in red illustrated paper covered boards which wrap around the spine but with the same cover illustration as the first.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56389
- Title
- TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: A Visit from St. Nicholas
- Author
- Moore, Clement C. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair condition overall - significant chipping to the paper spine covering, some fading to the covers, and a small peeled spot on
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- New York & Boston:
- Date Published
- (1912.)
- Keywords
- children's books, illustrated,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christmas books;
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Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....