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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Red boards with mild shelf wear and age toning . Gold gilt spine lettering. Some age toning inside front and back covers and mellow toning the papers. Top text block gilted. Main text in black print; headers & footers (page numbers) in red print. Side edges uncut. Black and white illustrations throughout. 206 numbered pages. * From the Publisher's Preface, "The locales of prose tales in this sixteenth annual volume of the Christmas Book range from the mountains of Persia to the fertile fields of our own Middle West." The stories are written by both British and American authors. The seven stories contained in the volume: "The Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke, "The Seven Poor Travellers" by Charles Dickens, "David Swan" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Return of a Private" by Hamlin Garland, "The Red Thing" by Henry James, "Christmas Storms and Sunshine" by Elizabeth C. Gaskell, "The Christmas Broadcast" by Pope Pius XII.