Books

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Lippincott, (1915), first edition thus (American issue with the British sheets) with these illustrations, a tight vg or better copy in the publishers original purple cloth with gold-gilt pictorial and decorative binding in color pictorial dust-wrapper missing the dust-wrapper spine. Profusely illustrated with 12 full color, full page plates and many black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, greedy, and cold-hearted old miser who is transformed into a kind, generous man after visits by the ghost of his former business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.