The Gift of the Magi & Other Stories by O. Henry [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER / 1987]

The Gift of the Magi & Other Stories by O. Henry

SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITON [1987] READER'S DIGEST / WORLD'S BEST READING

Heavyweight hardcover w decorative gilded frontispiece. 

Features leatherette spine, textured endpapers and original inserts. Full page illustrations by Gordon Grant.

Book is in very good condition.  Light wear to cover; reads like new. 

O.Henry's Christmas classic, and other stories with artful twists, in an amazing Scholastic Classics edition introduced by award-winning author Pam Munoz Ryan

A young woman makes a drastic decision -- and her husband has a Christmas surprise in return. A dying girl attaches her fate to that of a leaf. A writer sobs at the sight of a menu. A detective tracks a theif to an unexpected hideout.
An unforgettable collection from a master of the short story -- where the ending is never what you expect.