This Way to Christmas
by Ruth Sawyer
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. July 1941 printing (with Harper's G-Q code), with scarce Maginel Wright Barney illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages crisp. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and corners; not price clipped ($1.25); in an archival mylar sleeve. Frontispiece illustration only. pp. 165, [1]. This Way to Christmas, originally published in 1916, was the first children's book written by Ruth Sawyer (1880-1970). She would go on to win the Newbery Medal in 1937 and in 1965 was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her lifetime achievement in children's literature. The dust jacket and frontispiece were illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright Barney (1877-1966), an illustrator of children's books and the mother of Elizabeth Enright, who was herself an author and illustrator of children's books and the Newbery Medal winner in 1938.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014894
- Title
- This Way to Christmas
- Author
- Ruth Sawyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children's, vintage, Maginel Wright,
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Crisp
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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