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Hale, Edward E : Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Ten Christmas Stories

Roberts Brothers, Boston, MA, 1873

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/8" x 7 1/8." 294 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece by F. O. C. Darley, complete. Eight additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A few minuscule marks on the front and back covers. Head of spine is slightly worn. Excerpt from the Preface: "This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. The first story has never before been published." Titles of the stories are as follows: "They Saw a Great Light," "Christmas Waits in Boston," "Alice's Christmas-Tree," "Daily Bread," "Stand and Wait," "The Two Princes," "The Story of Oello," "Love Is the Whole," "Christmas and Rome," "The Survivor's Story," and "The Same Christmas in Old England and New." Edward E. Hale (1822-1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister who advocated for the abolition of slavery and promoted other social reforms such as popular education. Felix "F. O. C." Darley (1822-1888) was an American illustrator who had a prolific career and illustrated many nineteenth-century books by acclaimed authors such as Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.. Illustr.: Darley, F. O. C.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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