The Romance of a Christmas Card
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1916, October. Alice Ercle HUNT. [LITERARY WORK] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Alice Ercle HUNT, illustrator.
First edition. 12mo (7 ¾” x 5 ½”); 123, [2]pp, [1]printer’s imprint; blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped decorative border of holly surrounds the title and a color pictorial onlay of a house in the snow titled “The Folks Back Home”; top edge gilt; pictorial eps; head piece illustrations and tail pieces; color fp + 3 additional color plates; near fine. (BAL 22675). Item #2260
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856-1923) was a writer and educator specializing in kindergarten and early childhood education. Perhaps her most memorable work was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Birds’ Christmas Carol.
Price: $175.00