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The Spirit of Christmas
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
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SPRINGTOWN, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Purple board with gray binding VG. Inside pages show normal aging. On back inside cover is a taped on newspaper article about the author. Book in good condition.
Synopsis
It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom. It helps one to feel the supremacy of the common life over the individual life. It reminds a man to set his own little watch, now and then, by the great clock of humanity which runs on sun time.But there is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow-men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness - are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.
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Details
- Bookseller
- ArchBooks Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15101
- Title
- The Spirit of Christmas
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1916
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 59
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Christmas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christmas;
Terms of Sale
ArchBooks Inc.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
ArchBooks Inc.
Biblio member since 2023
SPRINGTOWN, Texas
About ArchBooks Inc.
ArchBooks was established 1980 in Minnesota and moved to Texas in 2001. We have always been a closed shop with about 30,000 books. Most of our inventory consists of children's books.
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