About this title: 'The bulk of the book is Christmas to the core. [It is] the ideal gift book' - V. P. Hass, "Chicago Sunday Tribune". 'For family reading aloud' - "Wisconsin Library Bulletin". 'For those who cherish the folksy, lamplit, teakettle-warmth of Bess Streeter Aldrich's stories, this year's gift problem is solved' - "New York Herald Tribune Book Review". The true meaning of Christmas emerges in these stories about reunited families, good fellowship, and restored faith. This is not to say that all is sugar candy. The mother in the title story faces a lonely Christmas in an empty house - but then ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton Century
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. No folded pages. Name/date on inside of cover. Considerable dustcover wear, including rubbing & edgewear, plus amny tears including the inside flap torn off (it's inside of book though) and chipping along edges. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 265 p. illus. 21 cm. Journey into Christmas. -Star across the tracks. -The drum goes dead. -Youth is all of an up-and-coming. -The man who caught the weather. -Bid the tapers twinkle. -Christmas on the prairie (from A lantern in her hand)-Low lies his bed. -Another... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover book in good condition, light cover wear, pages light yellow. 265 p. illus. 21 cm. Journey into Christmas. -Star across the tracks. -The drum goes dead. -Youth is all of an up-and-coming. -The man who caught the weather. -Bid the tapers twinkle. -Christmas on the prairie (from A lantern in her hand)-Low lies his bed. -Another... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century
Date Published: c1963
Description: Very Good-in Good+ dust jacket. Illustrated b/w by Susanne Suba. A nice tight, solid copy, in a colorful dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Appleton Century Crofts Inc, 1949
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good + in Good jacket. G +/Good. 5.5"x8". This hard cover book has a color illustrated dj with white and red lettering on the front and spine of the dj. The dj is worn. A book of 12 short stories. Full page black and white illustrations. 265 pages. read more
Description: Appleton-Century, c.1963, later printing, hardcover, illus b/w; Pages bright, a solid copy, no internal markings, a VERY GOOD copy, in a colorful GOOD+ dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: 1st thus?
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century, New York
Date Published: c1949, 1963
Description: Susanne Suba artwork. Near fine, vg+ dj, green cloth w/ light green bds. Tight. 239 pgs, Collection of 12 stories. No names, clean text. Attractive! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780803259089ISBN:0803259085
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. So gently used it could pass for new! Tight binding, pages clean, no bent corners, no markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 266 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Suba, Susanne. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Gently bumped corners. Clean and unmarked. 239pp. Dust jacket, rubbed at corners, crease to back flap, now under new mylar cover. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century, (c 1949. ), New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. ( Dust cover has 1 inch tear accross top of spine) Hardcover-Collection of 12 stories about Christmas, beautifully illustrated by Susanne Suba, in watercolors on the dustcover and black and white ink wash drawings in the book. read more
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