Description

Very Scarce First Edition, Worldcat lists only 22 copies of the first edition in institutional holdings and we are aware of no other copies currently on the market. With two engraved plates by Augustus Hoppin and with chapter headpieces and engraved initials Small 8vo, in the publisher's original textured green cloth, the upper cover framed in blind and lettered "A Christmas Story" in gilt with stylized decorative lettering, the design repeated on the rear cover but in blind, the spine blind lettered within a gilt decorative emblem, yellow endpapers. 104 pp. A rare survival in original cloth and in unusually well preserved condition, the text clean and with minimal mellowing, the green cloth bright and unfaded, the hinges firm and intact, a little wear or rubbing to the corners and edges. This is one of the brightest and well preserved copies we have studied.