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Buy this book on-line STREATFEILD,NOEL**: : The Noel Streatfeild Christmas Holiday Book.[contributor SIGNED copy.]LONDON.J.M. DENT & SONS LTD.,1973. ISBN 0460058495.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,contributor SIGNED, dedicated+dated,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Interestingly,SIGNED,warmly dedicated+ dated by one of the contributors,HELEN CRESSWELL: 'For Robert and Rebecca,wishing you a Happy Christmas - Helen Cresswell 1973.' [The story by her,included here,as also pubished independently,the same year as this anthology,by her own publisher, A.M.Heath & Co,Ltd.,1973.Streatfeild herself,admits Cresswell is one of her favourite aithors.] Bright,crisp,clean, laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Sara Silcock illustrated upper wrap,b/w author/ compiler photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge lightly,sporadically foxed/spotted otherwise generally clean, fore-edges unaffected and therefore brighter and cleaner; contents bright,
tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,unblemished,publisher's original,plain red cloth bds with crisp, bright stamped gilt decoration+letters to spine/backstrip and apart from inscrptn/
signature to ffe,clean,plain white eps.UK, slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,Signed,1st edn,5-160pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, 18 short stories,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces+part-page (the majority) and 5 full-page illustrations - all by Sara Silcock acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and b/w line illustrated frntis.
In this anthology,Noel Streatfeild recalls the Christmases of her childhood, linking her memories with stories and verses carefully chosen to make this a truly beautiful gift book for all time. There are contributions from Margaret J. Baker, John Betjeman, Godfried Bomans, Coco the Clown (Poliakoff), Helen Cresswell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rumer Godden(3), Selma Lagerhof, Patricia Lynch, Margaret Mahy, Richard G.Robinson, Tayeb Salih, Joyce Stranger, Noel Streatfeild(2) and finally Chretien de Troyes.
Did you ever wonder what happened to the three little Fossils in her story 'Ballet Shoes' - well,here is your chance to find out! This book is a companion to two other holiday books,'Summer' (published) and 'Easter' (in preparation,then 1973,and subsequently published,1974.),full of stories and verses appropiate to the different holidays and linked by Noel Streatfeild's own reminiscences.
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