Holiday Gifts 2020

7 Holiday Gifts December 2020 Bright And Colorful 1958 Edition Of The Night Before Christmas 10. [MOORE, Clement C.] WINSHIP, Florence Sarah, illustrator. Night Before Christmas. Racine, Wisconsin, 1958. Slim folio (7-1/2 by 16 inches), staple-bound as issued, original die-cut paper wrappers; pp. [12]. $300. Click for more info Lovely 1958 edition of this Christmas classic, illustrated by beloved American children’s illustrator Florence Sarah Winship, with wrappers die-cut in the shape of Santa Claus with his suit and hat velvet-textured. A few tiny tears to interior, light creasing and rubbing to edges of wrappers. Extremely good. “Wake Up, Rudolph. It’s Almost Night” 9. MAY, Robert L. Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer Picture Book. Racine, 1951. Slim quarto, original staple-bound pictorial wrappers. $385. Click for more info “Authorized edition” of a charming tale of Santa’s beloved ninth reindeer, originally written exclusively for Montgomery Ward by Robert May, this 1951 edition of Santa’s gift for Rudolph designed by May for pre-school children, with colorful illustrations on every page, a lovely copy in original wrappers. About-fine. “I Can Make All The Boys And Girls Happy On Christmas Day” 8. (CHRISTMAS) Santa Claus in Toyland. New York, 1951. Quarto, spiral- bound as issued, original pictorial paper boards, mounted plastic applique and moveable. $225. Click for more info First edition of this Christmas pop-up book about Santa’s workshop, with one pop-up of Santa’s elves and five Christmas movables, with original dimensional wrappers featuring a plastic applique of a snowy roof. Extremely good. “Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened— by the recurrence of Christmas.”—Charles Dickens C h r i s t m a s