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Amid all the trappings and tinsel, we've gathered a selection of festive items to ring in the holiday. Whether you prefer a star or an angel atop your tree, you'll find both in an array of Christmas cards signed and with illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Suzanne Moore ornaments two miniature alphabet books with her sparkling calligraphy, each housed in a decorative sleeve with a ribbon, suitable for tree decoration. Unwrap a limited edition of The Nutcracker which still sports its publisher’s shrinkwrap. Stocking the list with poetry are two signed cards from Seamus Heaney.
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Rockwell Kent
Twelve Christmas Cards, c. 1935-1950
Group of Christmas cards featuring reproductions of illustrations by Kent, all but two bearing inscriptions from the artist, or from his wife, Sally. Learn more...
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Rockwell Kent
Christmas card and signed proof, 1921
Single-sided card with wood engraving beneath which is text with green ornaments interposed among the initials. Included is a proof of the image, signed and dated in pencil by Kent. Learn more...
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Suzanne Moore
A Book of Christmas, (1991)
A lovely Christmas alphabet in the form of a folding miniature panorama, with a letter to each page. "N" is "naughty and nice," and "T" is "tinsel." Beautifully hand-lettered in Moore's own calligraphy, with gold and colored inks. The book is housed in a handmade paper sleeve, cleverly tied with a ribbon so that it may be used as an ornament. Learn more...
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Suzanne Moore
Christmas ABC & XYZ, (1991)
This jubilant miniature Christmas ABC celebrates the religious themes of Christmas, with words such as "advent," "hallelujah," "frankincense," and "peace on earth" artfully expressed in calligraphy with illumination in watercolors, gold, and silver. Housed in a sleeve of green and white paper, with a crimson ribbon loop for hanging as an ornament. Learn more...
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Seamus Heaney
"Would They Had Stayed" Christmas card, 1997
A greeting card for the Christmas season, inscribed by Heaney to "Mary," and featuring Heaney's poetic recollection of Macbeth, Act I, Scene iii, borrowing Macbeth's exclamation as his title. Learn more...
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Seamus Heaney
"Room to Rhyme" Christmas card, 2003
A holiday greeting, signed from Heaney and his wife, Marie Devlin, to "Rosemary." Features the opening lines from a mummers' play performed by Country Derry Christmas Rhymers in the early 1940s; Heaney borrowed the lines for his own "Great Minds Lecture," entitled "Room to Rhyme." Learn more...
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E. T. A. Hoffmann; Roberto Innocenti (illus.)
The Nutcracker, 1996
One of 250 copies, signed by the illustrator. The classic Christmas tale, imaginatively illustrated by Innocenti. Very fine and still in shrinkwrap. Learn more...
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Clement C. Moore; Tasha Tudor (illus.)
The Night Before Christmas, 1997
First edition thus. Tudor's illustrations set the story in her Vermont farmhouse. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Learn more...
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Eric Gill & David Jones
The Common Carol Book. A Collection of Christmas and Easter Hymns, 1926
One of 225 copies. Illustrated throughout with twenty-three wood engravings. Most of these were done by children, but two are by David Jones and three by Eric Gill. A collection of hymns for Christmas and Easter, presented primarily in Latin with plain-chant notation. Learn more...
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Lynd Ward
Christmas card with woodcut print, (c. 1940s)
Christmas card printed on one side, and with woodcut tipped-in. The woodcut shows the New Year's baby grasping a torch and artist's tools and flying away from sinister figures, an eagle, and planes dropping bombs. The facing text reads, "...And a/happy new year/May and Lynd Ward." Learn more...
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Katherine Milhous
With Bells On. A Christmas Story, 1955
Signed and inscribed by the author. A festive story of the Christmas season in quaint environs of Pennsylvania. Bookplate of former owner, the young Alison Bainer, to whom Milhous inscribed the book. Learn more...
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Block-printed Christmas wrapping papers, (n.d.)
Ten sheets of thin paper, each one printed with a repeating pattern in red or green. All show festive scenes, some of Santa Claus at work, some of jovial characters at play. Coiled around original cardboard tube, and with manufacturer's label still partly present. Learn more...
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Rockwell Kent
Symphony Angel Christmas Card, c. 1935
Full color reproduction of Kent's "Vermont Symphony Orchestra Angel" painting, tipped onto a bifold card. Both the exterior and interior have been signed by Kent, the former below the image and the latter, with his wife Sally, below the printed season's greetings. Learn more...
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Rockwell Kent
Christmas Card for 1928
Single sheet with wood engraving by Kent in three colors incorporating the inscription: "Designed for the friends of Lentheric by Rockwell Kent 1928." A rare bit of commercial illustration found among Kent's Christmas cards. Learn more...
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Boston, MA 02116
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