Margaret Tarrant's Christmas Garland
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, (1942). Margaret Tarrant. Hardcover. 8vo. 126 pp. Blue buckram binding with color pictorial paste-down (Christ-mas. The Light of Winter-Time.) and silver lettering on front & spine. Head and tail of spine and corners lightly bumped. Former owner's bookplate on endpapers. Frontis. Stories and poems about Christmas, illustrated with tipped-in color plates by Maragret Tarrant. Text opens with The Christmas Story According to Saint Luke, and includes historical works dating back to the 1100's, Czech and early English Christmas-carol lyrics, writings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Hans Christian Andersen among others, plus prayers by Saint Francisis of Assisi and Allah's Prayer. In very good condition. vg. Item #9337
Price: $40.00