Christmas
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Hamilton, Ian [Ed]: Eight Poets, Edited by Ian Hamilton for the Poetry Book Society. Christmas 1968. London: Poetry Book Society 1968. 16p stapled pamphlet, clean and fresh, VG, nice copy PKM 143434 £14
Whistler, Laurence ; Jones, Inigo [Illustr]; Whistler, Rex [Illustr]: The Masque of Christmas. Dramatic Joys of the Festival. London: Curtain Press 1947. (Masque) 39p stapled undated booklet, pink and green illustrated wrapper VG, light soiling to rear cover, staples rusting, interior excellent, fresh and bright, Skelt, Calthrop, Astley, Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones PKM 139583 £12
Buckton, A M : Eager Heart. A Christmas Mystery Play. 9th Ed. London: Methuen 1910. 40p brown paper cover with grey cover illustration after Blake, spine chipped at foot, bookblock detached, binding otherwise firm, foxing throughout PKM 138241 £8
Strousse, Flora ; Cooke, Donald [Illustr]: The Littlest Christmas Tree. First edition. New York: Morehouse-Gorham 1953. 24p slim hardcover with dustjacket, colours still fresh, white boards foxed otherwise VG, interior is bright firm and fresh PKM 136903 £12
St Francis : Il Cantico di Frate Sole. Firenze: Olschki 1953. single leaf folded, ink inscription signed Augusta & Paolo Giucciardini to front, dated Natale 1953, printer's mark in red on back, text printed with red paragraph marks, pin holes, may have been hung on a wall for a time, hence yellowing to inside PKM 135374 £14
St Francis : Laudes Creaturarum. Natale MCMXLIV. Firenze 1944. 4p blue paper cover with small title label "Laudes Creaturarum", woodcut by Pietro Parigi to half title, limited edition of 100 copies, spine of cover fragile, printed All Insegna dell'Alloro PKM 135373 £28
Roseberry, Eric : The Faber Book of Carols and Christmas Songs. London: Faber 1983. 118p large paperback, VG PKM 133418 £10
Bramley, Henry Ramsden [Ed]; Stainer, John : Christmas Carols, New and Old. London: Novello & Co 1900s?. 117p small blue card cover, spine torn, with red inscription on front cover, pages unmarked, overall good condition PKM 130251 £6
Bramley, Henry Ramsden ; Stainer, John : Christmas Carols, New and Old. London: Novello & Co 1900s?. 117p small blue card cover, spine torn, with red inscription on front cover, pages unmarked, overall good condition PKM 130250 £6
Baring-Gould, Sabine : The Birth of Jesus: Eight Discourses for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. London: Skeffington 1885. viii 98p brown cloth with silver lettering and cross, stain from past water damage on front cover, otherwise internally clean, previous owner's signature on ffep, binding weakening, still VG PKM 128994 £22
Beliajus, V F [Ed]: Hope Viltis. A Folklore Magazine. Vol. 22, No. 4, 1963. Lithuanian Christmas Ornaments Contest. Denver: Beliajus 1963. Single issue of large format journal, 30p, stapled, with many illus, minor wear to cover, VG PKM 127938 £12
DeFalco, Tom : Marvel Age: The Official Marvel News Magazine! No 73, 1989. Special Holiday Issue. New York: Marvel Comics 1989. single issue, comics, as new, full colour, excellent condition PKM 127911 £12
Dearmer : The Oxford Book of Carols. Oxford University Press 1936. 220p very small red cloth with fainted gilt lettering, some shelfwear, corners and edges rubbed, signature of prev owner on front end paper, pages unmarked, very good condition PKM 124751 £10
Dickens, Charles ; Shepard [Illustr]: The Holly Tree and Other Christmas Stories. London: Partridge 1940. 192p large brown cloth, slightly soiled cover, good condition PKM 123965 £16
Appleton, Marion : A Christmas Carol. London: Purnell 1968. (Happy Christmas Books) 15p tall golden hardback, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG+ PKM 123811 £12
Christmas, F E : Merry Christmas: A Seasonable Anthology. London: St Hugh's 1946. 59p small red card boards, cover scratched and slightly soiled, interior unmarked and in good condition, printed on brown coloured paper PKM 123296 £5
Victoria & Albert Museum : Secrets of the Stage: A Christmas Exhibition. Published 1973. 10p white stapled booklet, card cover, very good condition PKM 120687 £5
Molesworth, Mary Louisa ; Crane, Walter : Christmas Tree Land. London: Macmillan 1891. 223p red decorative cloth, frontispiece with tissueguard, rear hinge cracked, spine slanted slightly, Good PKM 118661 £18
Pansy : Christie's Christmas. London: Ward, Lock & Co undated. 256p red cloth with black lettering, corners slightly bumped, inscription to front endpaper, binding firm, includes booksellers sticker, very good condition PKM 116977 £8
Alain ; Pevear, Richard [Transl]: Noel. Printed at Christmas, 1974 for the friends of Elizabeth & Richard Pevear, Ann & J Laughlin, and New Directions. Privately Printed 1974. 4p stapled paperback, this essay is the final chapter of Alin's "The Gods" originally published in French in 1934, 3 specks on front cover otherwise VG+ PKM 116452 £10
Holbrook, David ; Poston, Elizabeth [Eds]: The Apple Tree: Christmas Music from the Cambridge Hymnal. Cambridge University Press 1976. 115p silver hardback, ex library, corners slightly bumped, fraying to head and foot of spine, pages clean and unmarked, index, very good condition PKM 113798 £22
Westall, Robert : The Christmas Cat. London: Methuen 1991. 96p cloth with orange/grey dustjacket, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w illustrations, near fine condition PKM 111966 £9
Schulz, Charles : Christmas is Together Time. London: Hamlyn 1966. small red and white hardcover, fair condition, dustjacket soiled and worn at edges, pages clean and bright, inscription on front endpaper. PKM 104345 £6
Wiggin, Kate Douglas ; Hunt, Alice [Illustr]: The Romance of a Christmas Card. London: Hodder & Stoughton c1910. 143p blue cloth hardback, very good condition, red gilt lettering on cover, colour cover plate, pages clean, tight binding, illustrations, VG+ PKM 104130 £30
Morrison, John [Ed]; Bower, John [Introduction]: A Little Book of Carols. Orpington: Bishop. Approx 30p hb w/ dj, nice colour drawings, 28 of the most popular carols, slim book, VG PKM 98818 £8
Church Information Office : Together for Christmas. A Resource Anthology. London: Church Information Office 1975. 119p red/white pb, as new, VG PKM 98510 £8
Cherry, John : Medieval Crafts: A Book of Days. London: Thames & Hudson 1993. 112p hardback, calender with nice illus PKM 96080 £8
Buckton, A M : Eager Heart. A Christmas Mystery Play. 17th Ed. London: Methuen 1927. 44p brown paper cover, spine worn, VG PKM 95786 £8
Brown, Michele : Royal Christmas Book. Windward 1985. 128p red hardback, many colour plates: What do the Royals do for Christmas? PKM 92183 £16
Goldmann, Petra ; Zocher, Wolfgang : Berlin. Weihnachten 1989. M�nchen: Goethe Institut 1990. (Videomaterial f�r den Deutschunterricht) Videocasette VHS PAL, 20 minutes, VG ex lib, VG+ authors assumed on basis of web search PKM 91145 £14
: Christmas Carols. A Bound Collection of Single Pieces in various formats. imprint varies 1913. Here is the Little Door; Sweeter than Songs of Summer, Christmas Carrol (Horrocks/Milton); Holst: Lullay my Liking; Rootham: Noel; Terry: 12 Carols; R Vaughn Williams: Fantasia; Walford Davies: Magdalen at Michael's Gate etc, etc, approx 150p PKM 90008 £12
Babson, Marian : The Twelve Deaths of Christmas. London: Collins 1967. (Crime Club) hardback with dustjacket, fresh nice copy PKM 89967 £7
de la Mare, Walter : Stories from the Bible. Illus Irene Hawkins. London: Faber 1947. 372p fine mauve cloth, a few of the b/w plates have been custom coloured by a young hand, library bookplae, nice and firm PKM 89951 £8
Exley, Richard : Child's View of Christmas. Watford: Exley 1979. hardback, a nice and clean copy PKM 89746 £6.75
Adrian, Jack : Crime at Christmas: A Seasonal Box of Murderous Delights. London: Equation 1988. 222p hardback, square format, dustjacket, VG+ PKM 89569 £9
McGee, Cecil : Dramatic Programs for Christmas. Nashville: Broadman & Holman 1970. 114p paperback with green blue cover, VG PKM 89562 £9
Henseleit, Felix : Berliner Kinder. Wie sie waren - wie sie sind. Gesehen von Berliner Zeichnern. Berlin: Ullstein 1957. square book with Christmas d�cor to cover, uncut pages, VG+ PKM 86255 £9
Guillemin, Henri : Cette nuit-l�. Conte de No�l illustr� par Andr� Rosselet. Neuch�tel: Griffon 1948. 44p large pb in protective sleeve, illustrations, insription on ffep, nice copy, pages clean, VG+ PKM 78560 £14.4
Estes, Eleanor : The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree. Illustrated by Susanne Suba. Oxford University Press 1976. 76p red cloth with illustrated dustjacket, ex-lib copy with stamps and shelfmark (small), very nice and neat copy, hardly used, VG+ PKM 72839 £5.4
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor : A Christmas Tree, A Wedding, An Honest Thief. Russian Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1917. 63p little cloth bound booklet with green ornamented cover, sunned spine but otherwise clean and neat little volume, Russian language, VG+ PKM 72782 £9
(No Author) : Wahrhafte und ausf�hrliche Beschreibung, Kaiserl. Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Wien in �sterreich: Von dessen Alter und Herkommen . . . Wien: Kirchberger 1750. 8p leaflet, facs reprint by Erwin Heidrich bookseller as christmas greeting (1970?) PKM 71264 £5.4
Moleta, Clare : The Little Bird of Bethlehem. A Christmas Story. Illustrated by Joan Lewis. Claremont: Aeolian Press 1986. Unpaginated hardback with colour illustrated cover, laminated boards, pages clean and unmarked with colour illustrations throughout, includes family photgraph of the author affixed to inside front cover which replicates that depicted on rear cover, VG PKM 66839 £5.4
Cahn, Michael : Book shaped real olive wood object, polished and oiled, 54 x 33 mm. Palestine (No Publisher) 2002. Three double bands on spine, decorated edges, approx 2 mm thick, bound together with red ribbon with a 2 page political pamphlet bound in original marbled paper (35 x 35 mm) referring to the occupied town of Bethlehem, dated December 2002. PKM 66147 £5
A L O E : The Shepherd of Bethlehem. London: Nelson 1890. 365p blue cloth with decorative border, gilt lettering, spine sunned, edges grubby, pp 17 - 32 detaching, pages clean, all edges gilt, patterned end papers, pages clean and illustrated throughout, VG PKM 65507 £9
Forster, William : Ella's Christmas Letter and Other Stories. London: Robert Culley 1906. 63p grey cloth with floral picture on cover, spine a little worn, hinges frayed and end papers browned, pages stapled together, slight dust to pages, bookplate, illustrations throughout, VG PKM 65285 £7.2
Ward, R H : Holy Family. (Adelphi Players) Published 1943. 28p pb, Christmas play, ex lib copy PKM 62146 £7
Northrup, Marguerite : The Christmas Story from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1966. 32p A4 format, cloth, dustjacket, VG PKM 60265 £7.2
Wood, Alexander : Sound Waves and Their Uses: Six Lectures Delivered Before a "Juvenile Auditory" Under the Auspices of the Royal Institution, Christmas 1928. London: Blackie 1930. x 152p grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, diagrams, bibliogr, VG PKM 59501 £8
Raeburn, Henzie : Beginning of the Way, A Nativity Play. Published 1944?. 20p stapled booklet issued by The Religious Drama Society w/ paper wrappers, fold out sheet of music in back, VG PKM 59268 £12.6
Hornsea : Sacred Heart Church, Hornsea, Yorks., Building Fund Christmas Draw 1928. Hornsea: Sacred Heart Church 1928. raffle ticket for the 1928 Christmas Draw, stating a number of various 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, as for ex bottle of Port, Time Piece, New Laid Eggs, etc, VG+ PKM 57651 £6
Hillenbrandt, Ludwig [Ed]: O du Fr�hliche, O du Selige. Geschichten, Gedichte zum Lesen und Vorlesen. M�nchen: Goldmann 1965?. paperback 198p, VG PKM 50336 £9
Kolbenheyer, E G : Weihnachtsgeschichten. M�nchen: Langen M�ller 1920. 127p sm blue cloth, gilt on spine, VG, included cut-out poem from newspaper entitled "Dem F�hrer" by E H K PKM 43045 £10.8
Walter, Robert : Der Krippenschnitzer. Erz�hlung. 16. - 30. Tausend. Hamburg: Quickborn 1920. (Der Brunnen) 75p nice paper cover, minor hurts on spine, VG PKM 37142 £4.5
Kuresoo, Ly ; Kappel, Margus [Eds]: Valimik J�ululaule. Tallinn: Eesti Muusika�hig 1988. 32p stapled, card wrapper, christmas songs with music & words, VG PKM 33041 £6
Lyall, Edna : Their Happiest Christmas. 1st ed. Edinburgh: Chambers 1890. 120p 18cm illus cloth, ornament & gilt title on spine, frontisp with tissue guard & illus, presentation bookplate, pseudonymous work of Ada Ellen Bayly, cover & top edge sl soiled, text clean, VG PKM 28057 £19.8
Strode, William [Ed]: Old Christmases. London: Sampson Low 1920. (Greetings Book) 46p stapled, illus + colour plates, selection of extracts on Christmases past, VG PKM 23030 £4.5
Pacey, Philip : Family Art. London: Polity 1989. ix 181p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, as new: Reconstructing the traditions which transform a house into a home, relatives into a family: Family albums, Christmas decoration, etc PKM 13482 £9
Schmidt, Hans Werner : Deutsche Weihnachtsspiele und Spr�che. Kleine Geschwisterszenen und gr�ssere Spiele, unter dem Weihnachtsbaum zu sagen und aufzuf�hren. Leipzig: Schneider 1926. 111p card cover with colour illus, Buchschmuck by A Bischof. Cover a hint creased, nice and fresh copy PKM 9282 £13.5
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