Christmas
47 books in list (last updated 11 June 2009)
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
Molesworth, Mary Louisa ; Crane, Walter [Illustr]: A Christmas Posy. London: Macmillan 1888. viii 215p red decorative cloth, inscription on ffep, slightly soiled with some rubbing to extremities, interior clean and unmarked, no foxing, 32p publisher's catalogue, overall VG+ PKM 118657 £44
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
Willcocks, David : Carols for Christmas. London: Gollancz 1983. 96p large cloth with red/white pictorial jacket, minor shelfwear, corners rubbed, fraying to top/bottom of spine, ex library, very good condition PKM 113562 £18
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
Bätschmann, Emilia [Ed]: Das St. Galler Weihnachtsspiel. Bern: Francke 1977. (Altdeutsche Übungstexte) 105p small paperback, VG+ PKM 97468 £12
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. München: Goethe Institut 1990. (Videomaterial für 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 décor to cover, uncut pages, VG+ PKM 86255 £9
Guillemin, Henri : Cette nuit-là. Conte de Noël illustré par André Rosselet. Neuchâtel: 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. 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 ausführliche Beschreibung, Kaiserl. Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Wien in Österreich: 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
Cahn, Michael ; St Plurabellus : St Plurabellus: De mirabitate adventus CHRISTI, tomi duos, ememdata e augmentata con tractatuli de ornamento allemani vulgo detto aventscrans volumen novissimo. Lugduni Natalis: Rudolfus Nasrubino 1527. this book has been invented in the spirit of Christmas and is listed on a mimeographed book list, produced on a original Gestetner machine, and distributed as folded Christmas card 2003, together with many other similar titles PKM 66146 £1
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, gilt edging, patterned end papers, pages clean and illustrated throughout, VG PKM 65507 £9
Walton, O F : Angel's Christmas. London: Religious Tract Society 1880. (Little Dot Series) 64p small blue cloth with twig and leaf decoration and small colour picture of a child reading to her dog inset, black lettering on spine and gilt title on cover, slight wear, hinges frayed and binding stretched in places, pages have been stapled together PKM 65286 £12.6
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 £13.5
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 Fröhliche, O du Selige. Geschichten, Gedichte zum Lesen und Vorlesen. München: Goldmann 1965?. paperback 198p, VG PKM 50336 £9
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, small hurts to spine, VG ex lib copy PKM 45759 £12.6
Kolbenheyer, E G : Weihnachtsgeschichten. München: Langen Müller 1920. 127p sm blue cloth, gilt on spine, VG, included cut-out poem from newspaper entitled "Dem Führer" by E H K PKM 43045 £10.8
Walter, Robert : Der Krippenschnitzer. Erzählung. 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 Jõululaule. Tallinn: Eesti Muusikaühig 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
Norwich, John [Ed]: Christmas Crackers: Being Ten Commonplace Selections. London: Penguin 1982. 286p large green pb, index, cover sl creased, otherwise VG+ PKM 22951 £6
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
Powell, Susan [Ed]: The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a 15th Century Revision of John Mirk's Festival, from MS Harley 2247, Royal 18BXXV and Gloucester Cathedral 22. Heidelberg: Winter 1981. (Middle English Texts) 150p, card cover, bibliogr, glossary, appendix, scholarly introduction: 7 sermons, new PKM 12410 £9
Schmidt, Hans Werner : Deutsche Weihnachtsspiele und Sprüche. Kleine Geschwisterszenen und grössere Spiele, unter dem Weihnachtsbaum zu sagen und aufzuführen. 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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