The Family Christmas Book edited by Dorothy Wilson [FIRST EDITION ANTHOLOGY] 1957

The Family Christmas Book edited by Dorothy Wilson 

FIRST EDITION [1957] PRENTICE HALL

*Beautiful antique hardcover holiday anthology containing Christmas stories by Shirley Jackson, Pearl S. Buck, Margery Allingham and more as well as cartoons by a variety of artists. 

Hardcover with dust jacket both in very good condtion. 

Dust jacket shows some shelf / rub wear, a small blemish to front corner,  as well as tanning and a few small edge tears;  now housed in protective mylar.  

Book itself is near mint and reads like new.  A beautiful copy! 

An anthology of Christmas stories and cartoons. 

Contains:

Home for Christmas by Elizabeth Bowen

Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck

I Thought I Heard Them Singing by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Yuletide on Uncle Thomas by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Christmas Every Day by W.D. Howells

Happy Birthday Dear Jesus by Frederik Pohl 

Word in Season by Margery Allingham

Visions of Sugarplums by Shirley Jackson

Christmas is What You Make It by William Iverson

A Pig For Christmas by Nathaniel Benchley

Christmas Calories by Merrill Denison

+ Hilarious cartoons by Roland Coe, Chon Day, Robert Day, Ed Fisher, Garrett Price, O. Soglow, Barney Tobey & Don Tobin