Night Before Christmas

Arthur RACKHAM   |   Clement C. MOORE

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Night Before Christmas
Night Before Christmas
Night Before Christmas
Night Before Christmas
Night Before Christmas

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF RACKHAM’S THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George C. Harrap, (1931). Octavo, original gilt-stamped limp vellum, red and white pictorial endpapers, uncut, top edge gilt; original cardboard slipcase with printed paper spine label.

Signed limited first edition, number 161 of only 275 copies printed for England (out of a total edition of 550 copies), with four color plates and 17 in-text line cuts, signed by Arthur Rackham and in handsome publisher’s vellum. With scarce original slipcase.

"One of the world's most widely read poems… 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' recast St. Nicholas as a cheerful, rosy-cheeked elf and established Christmas as a time for giving gifts to children" (Carnegie Mellon University). For this edition of the Yuletide classic, Rackham created four full-color illustrations, 17 drawings in black and white, and red and white pictorial endpapers. With publisher's advertisement laid in. Title page printed in red and black. Riall, 174. Latimore & Haskell, 66.

Book fine. Only light wear to original slipcase with usual toning to spine. A beautiful, about-fine copy.

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