The Home Book of Christmas de Becker, May Lamberton [ed] - 1941

Dodd, Mead, & Co, 1941. Becker, May Lamberton [ed] : The Home Book of Christmas. New York : Dodd, Mead, & Co, 1941. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine and front board. Top edge stained red, fore-edge deckle. Plain white endpapers. [i-vi], vii-xx, [xxi-xxii] prelim material, 1-746. Acknowledgements, contents; sections arranged thus: The Bible story (from Luke, Matthew, Isaiah); Christmas Eve; The Shepherds; The Magi; The Preparations; The Great Day; The Stockings; The Tree; Santa Claus; Reading Aloud to Young People; Food and Fun; Songs and Verses; Carols; How They Spent Christmas; There'll Always Be a Christmas; Indices of titles, first lines, authors/sources. Condition notes: a worn but still serviceable copy with the following provenance: to front pastedown neat blue pen ownership signature "Josephine Park Pillsbury" (who has a UC-Berkeley acting award named in her honor); to ffep "Brother Kevin Berntson, FSC/April 7, 1974". Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn with moderate fading and staining, spine ends rolled and corners bumped and frayed; edges tanned/lightly soiled; binding loosening, with fabric showing at title page; remnant 2" tan tape mark to ffep; interior generally tanned but free of markings but for a few pencil underlinings. In a venerable copy from Christmas past, with contributions ranging from the editor, to Dickens, Chesterton, Broun, Hardy, Longfellow, Milton, Pyle, and on and on....We personally inspect every book we offer.