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Moore | Clement C. [Rackham | Arthur]

The Night Before Christmas

Limited Edition

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Description

Signed limited edition of The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

Octavo, [36pp]. Publisher’s white vellum, title in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Solid binding, an exceptionally bright example. Faint ripple to rear cover, touch of soiling to title page. Includes the publisher’s advertisement laid-in at front of volume. Complete with four full-page color plates, including frontispiece, and 17 illustrations in black and white. Lacking the tissue wrapper. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, title and matching limitation number on spine. (Latimore & Haskell, 66) (Riall, 174)

One of 275 copies for sale in America, this being number 163. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page.

Additional information

Location Published

Philadelphia

Publisher

J.B. Lippincott

Edition

Limited Edition

Date Published

1931

Binding

Original wraps

Condition

Near Fine

Author

Moore | Clement C. [Rackham | Arthur]

Parenthetical

[Rackham | Arthur]

Author Display

Clement C. Moore