WHEN FATHER CHRISTMAS WAS LATE. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated, 1929. Octavo, illustrated with woodcuts for each story by Joseph E. Sandford, original pink-rose boards with black cloth shelf back, white paper label printed in blue and red affixed to spine panel, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed. First edition. Collects six stories, several set at Christmas, some with historical settings, mostly of a sentimental religious bent with related supernatural coloring. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 253. Faint offset to verso of half title and recto of title leaves (probably from a once laid-in clipping since removed), else a bright, near fine copy. (#118502).
Price: $25.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.