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ItemID: #121385
Cost: $300.00

Night Before Christmas

Clement C. Moore

"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT": CLEMENT MOORE'S THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, ILLUSTRATED BY MILOCHE AND KANE

[MOORE, Clement C.] MILOCHE, Hilda and KANE, Wilma. Night Before Christmas. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman, 1947. Tall slim quarto (9-1/2 by 13 inches), original staple-bound stiff pictorial wrappers; pp. 10. $300.

Colorfully illustrated edition of the cherished Yuletide poem, with bright full-color wrappers and full-color illustrations by Hilda Miloche and Wilma Kane on each page, a beautiful copy.

"Clement C. Moore, a professor of Hebrew, wrote the poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. A house guest copied it in the fall of 1823, and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy Sentinel, where it was first published, anonymously, December 23, 1823… Not until St. Nicholas passed through the crucible of Doctor Clement Clarke Moore's mind and imagination did the patron saint of childhood ever ride in a sleigh, or have eight tiny reindeer… Nor was he dressed in furs, nor did he smoke a pipe, nor did he ever get into the homes of good little boys and girls by going down chimneys" (Grolier American 100, 52). This edition features vivid color illustrations by Hilda Miloche and Wilma Kane on every page. Issued the same year in cloth, no priority established.

Faintest edge-wear, trace of stray marks to front panel. A lovely about-fine copy.

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