Old Christmas
by Washington Irving
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Small green cloth with decorative gilt holly vines surounding dancing figures. The spine is also decorative with title, 2 punctures to the spine cloth, see photos. The rituals of Christmas Eve, Day and Dinner are delightfully described and accompanied by multiple b/w illustrations.
Synopsis
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032324H
- Title
- Old Christmas
- Author
- Washington Irving
- Illustrator
- Randolph Caldecott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile
- Publisher
- Sleepy Hollow Restoration
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 165
- Size
- 19x13mm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- holiday
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- 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....
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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