The St. Nicholas Anthology [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Commager, Henry Steele (editor)

Published by Random House, New York, 1948

About this Item

Fine unread condition red cloth boards, gold front cover and spine lettering, and elaborately decorated green, red, and gold front cover and spine illustrations/decorations. Includes Preliminary Page Poem by Montrose J. Moses; Editor Dedication; Introduction by May Lamberton Becker and Preface by Henry Steele Commager. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. ".here it is, the best of St. Nick. Here are the famous names (and what magazine ever boasted more famous names) - Kipling and Howells and Stockton and Lanier and Joel Chandler Harris and Louisa May Alcott and Jack London and Richard Harding Davis and so many others. Here are examples of some of the serials that brought such delight - the Peterkin papers and the adventures of Pinkey Perkins, and the Brownies, and even some of the incomparable Ralph Henry Barbour, though alas there was no space for a complete Barbour book. Here are the poets whose faces were once so familiar to us, from the game of Authors: Longfellow and Whittier and Tennyson and others who came after the Victorian Age but are just as precious, Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley. And here, too, are all the familiar illustrations, the wonderful Arthur Rachhams and the brilliant Howard Pyles and the exquisite A. B. Frosts. No book ever gave more pleasure, in the making than this. If it gives even a small part of that pleasure to those who read it, I shall be content." - excerpt from the Preface by Henry Steele Commager. Seller Inventory # 007750

Bibliographic Details

Title: The St. Nicholas Anthology [FIRST EDITION, ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1948

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Pyle, Howard; Rachham, Arthur, etc.

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition