Christmas Fiction & Literature

THE JOY OF A PEANUTS CHRISTMAS: 50 Years of Holiday Comics
by Charles Schulz. Color & B&W comics. Condition: NEW 1992 Hallmark small hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ, first edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear to DJ corners. Content: The best Christmas cartoons from the Peanuts gang by decade, the 50's, 60's, etc. Nostalgia at it's finest. How I miss Charles Schulz. [1 copy available]
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THE MODERN MAGI: A Christmas Fable
by Carol Lynn Pearson. Beautiful Wendell Minor cover art painting. Condition: NEW 1998 St. Martin's Press small hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Tiny shelfwear top DJ edge. Content: Annabelle Perkins, a spinster of 57 who waits tables, has a little bronze lamb she wants to take to Bethlehem as a gift for baby Jesus. Her mother had always told her that they would take it together. But now her parents are dead. Annabelle deposits $200 on a $2,000 Christmas trip to the Holy Land. She doesn't earn much and has a bad heart as well, but she puts in an extra day a week at the restaurant and by November is ready for the trip. Then, however, she learns that the daughter of one of her regular customers is going to drop out of collegeshe's run out of money. Baby Jesus whispers to Annabelle, Give me my gift now. So Annabelle anonymously sends her savings in a postal money order to the girl. Next year, Annabelle again saves up for the trip, but this time she reads that an ex-boyfriend has a daughter who needs a kidney transplant (price: $50,000). Baby Jesus whispers again. And Annabelle sends the money to the ex, anonymously. Next year, the same kind of giveaway occurs. Now she's too weak to work overtime (and thus save for the fare). But, lo, a miracle takes place. . . [1 copy available]
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THE ROADS FROM BETHLEHEM: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern
by Pegram Johnson III & Edna M. Trioano, editors. B&W illustrations. Condition: NEW 1993 Westminster/John Knox hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first ediiton, first printing. The DJ shows a bit of shelfwear top edge. Interior perfect. Content: This collection contains approximately 100 attempts to capture the meaning of Christmas in Scripture, theological writing, liturgy, literary prose, and poetry from Old Testament prophecy to the present. The early traditions show the most diversity, using not only scriptural sources but also pseudoepigrapha, Syrian, Chinese, and European material; the medieval tradition is represented by European and British material. With very few exceptions (e.g., Kierkegaard and a Mexican nun) later material is British and American. With brief, useful headnotes to the selections. [1 copy available]
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THE ST. NICHOLAS BOOK: A Celebration of Christmas Past
edited & introduction by Martin Greif. Wonderful color & B&W era lithographs and paintings. Condition: NEW 1981 Main Street soft cover, second printing. Content: A collection of stories, essays, poems, and illustrations from the nineteenth-century juvenile magazine reflecting the Christmas customs of the time. The famous "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus" newspaper essay is included. For young adults and adults, as well. Questions welcome.
$ 5.49 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

CHRISTMAS TREE BOOKPLATES
art by unknown artist. Condition: NEW package of 12 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 2.75" wide x 3.75" high. Content: Green Christmas Tree with yellow star decorations, Christmas pesents, and a green border - with room for a gift inscription, if you wish. We can personalize your bookplate (the font is Snell Blk BT) - just email us the name. Any questions, click here to email us.
$ 4.00 + $ 2.85 first class shipping. International shipping available.