Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 16mo; [32] pages
Publisher: The Horn Book, 1944, Boston
Illustrator: Illustrated by J. J. Lankers

[Book #19833]

A charming First Edition in original tan buckram with clustered read and white leaf patterns on endpapers in Fine condition. With tipped-on frontispiece photograph of Beatrix Potter and child with her facsimile signature underneath on half-title verso. [A]^4 [B]^8 [C]^4. In lightly rubbed dust-wrapper short closed tears, else Fine. Quinby 32;

This homely Christmas story, sent for its first publication in The Horn Book Magazine a few months before the death of the author, and held at her request for the Twentieth Anniversary Number (May-June 1944) , is serene and strong; sweet with the fragrance of growing things and the windswept moorlands of Beatrix Potter's homeland in the north of England. (from the dust-wrapper) ; Woodcuts