A Holiday List

David Mason Books

2017

DAVID MASON BOOKS

Christmas List 2017

dmbooks@bellnet.ca

www.davidmasonbooks.com

(416) 598-1015

TERMS: All items in this catalogue are in good to fine condition unless otherwise

stated, and may be returned within 5 days of receipt for any reason. Prices are net and

postage is extra. Usual terms are extended to libraries and institutions.

Prices are given in Canadian dollars. GST

will be added to Canadian orders.

U.S. clients will be billed in U.S. dollars

at the current rate of exchange.

SHOP HOURS:

Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm

Saturday by appointment or chance

Closed Sunday

Vintage Bernard Kliban Christmas

Cat Cards. 20 cards per set, with

envelopes, in the original boxes.

One style per box, three styles

available. Some yellowing from

age. $20/set

1. (ANON). Christmas Roses and New

Year’s Gift, A Present for Young People.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company,

nd. (c. 1848) Sq. 8vo., orig. red cloth dec.

in blindstamp and gilt, 180, (3)pp. ads.

Gift inscription, light soiling, spine ends

rubbed, about near fine. $100

2. ARNOLD, Winifred. Little Merry

Christmas. New York: Fleming H. Revell

Co., nd. (c. 1914) 8vo., cloth-backed

paper boards printed in green and red, 91,

(4)pp. ads. With illustrations. Christmas

gift inscription, else near fine. $45

3. BENNETT, Arnold. The Feast of St.

Friend. A Christmas Book. Toronto: The

Musson Book Company, nd. (1911) First

Canadian edition (from U.S. sheets). 8vo.,

orig. light green paper boards with

decoration in gilt and dark green on upper

cover, 117pp. A fine copy in an about fine

d/w. $150

4. DICKENS, Charles. The Chimes. A

Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an

Old Year Out and a New One In. New

York: The Hubbel Publishing, nd. (191-?)

8vo., orig. paper wallet-edge wrappers

printed in red, green, and gilt, (142)pp.

With colour frontispiece and yellow

pictorial border framing each page of text.

Wrapper edges creased with closed tears,

darkening to top edge, still a nice copy of

an attractive book. $35

5. DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the

Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. New

York: The Hubbel Publishing, nd. (191-?)

8vo., orig. paper wallet-edge wrappers

printed in red, green, and gilt, 144pp.

With colour frontispiece and yellow

pictorial border framing each page of text.

Wrapper edges creased with closed tears,

o/w near fine in glassine d/w. An

attractive publication. $45

6. DICKENS, Charles. The Christmas

Family-Party. from Sketches by Boz.

Charles Dickens. Toronto: Cooper &

Beatty, 1987. “A Christmas Keepsake.”

Tall 8vo., orig. decorated wrappers, 8pp.

A fine copy. (Photo shows titlepage.)

$100

7. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Turkey Remains

And How To Inter Them With Numerous

Scarce Recipes from The Note-Books

of... (Toronto: Cooper & Beatty, 1956).

First edition. Issued as a Christmas

Keepsake by Cooper and Beatty. Tall

8vo., orig. stiff printed wrappers, vi,

(6)pp. Fine in the printed stiff card stock

wrapper. $300

8. FOX, John. Christmas Eve on Lonesome

and Other Stories. New York: Scribner’s

Sons, 1904. First edition, first printing.

8vo., orig. dec. red cloth, 234pp.

Illustrated. An about fine copy. BAL

6252. $75

9. GALLON, Tom. The Charity Ghost A

Tale Of Christmas. With Illustrations by

Gordon Browne. London: Hutchinson &

Co., 1902. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig.

cloth pictorially dec. in gilt, viii, 311pp.

With illustrations. Bookplate, some minor

wear to spine ends o/w a nice copy. $85

10. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Christmas on the

Roof of the World. (Minneapolis):

Redpath Press, (1987). 8vo., pictorial

wrappers, 30pp. Fine. A Christmas

keepsake volume with envelope and

promotional card. Story originally

appeared in The Toronto Star in 1923.

$35

11. HUGHES, Rupert. Mrs. Budlong’s

Christmas Presents. New York and

London: D. Appleton and Company,

1912. First edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth

with pictorial paper panel on upper cover,

(121)pp. Ownership inscription,

bookseller’s blind stamp, else near fine.

$65

12. IRVING, Washington. Old Christmas

From the Sketch Book of... Illustrated by

R. Caldecott. London: Macmillan & Co.,

1878. Third edition. Cranford Series.

8vo., orig. dark green cloth with pictorial

illustration in gilt on the upper cover and

spine, A.E.G., xiv, 165pp. Name, pages

lightly browned around the edges, slight

touch of wear to the spine ends but still a

near fine copy. $250

13. IRWIN, Will. Where the Heart Is.

Showing That Christmas Is What You

Make It. New York and London: 1912.

First edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth dec.

in gilt, (73)pp. Gift inscription, minor

wear to spine ends, near fine. $35

14. KELLOGG, Alice M. Christmas

Entertainments. Containing Fancy Drills,

Acrostics, Motion Songs, Tableaux, Short

Plays, Recitation in Costume. For

Children of Five to Fifteen Years. Phil.:

Penn Publ. Co., 1920. (c. 1907) Sm. 8vo.,

pict. wrappers, 120pp. Extremities faded,

light wear to spine ends, about near fine.

$45

15. LOCKE, William J. A Christmas

Mystery. The Story of Three Wise Men.

Illustrated by Blendon Campbell. New

York: John Lane Company, 1910. 8vo.,

orig. green cloth lettered in gilt w/

pictorial paper panel on upper cover,

54pp. Lacking ffep, very good. $35

16. LYALL, Edna. Their Happiest Christmas.

Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, nd. (189-

?) Sm. 8vo., orig. green pictorial cloth,

120, (8)pp. ads. Cloth slightly soiled o/w

a nice copy of a pretty book. $50

17. (RACKHAM). MOORE, Clement C. The

Night Before Christmas. Illustrated by

Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J. B.

Lippincott Co., nd. (195-?) Later reprint.

8vo., red cloth dec. in gilt, (26)pp. Light

creasing to glossy pages, o/w near fine in

chipped d/w. $65

18. THOMAS, Dylan. Memories of

Christmas. Don Mills: J. M. Dent

(Canada), nd. (195-?) 8vo., green paper

wrappers patterned in gilt, printed paper

label on upper cover, (4)pp. Near fine.

Not in Maud, not in OCLC. A Dent

Christmas greeting, with the first page

reading “Wishing You a Merry

Christmas” above the imprint. With

“Judith McErvel” signed on greeting

page; McErvel was a Trade Advertising

and Sales Manager at Dent Canada. $75

Sheet Music

SM1. BERLIN, Irving. White Christmas.

Toronto: Canadian Music Sales Corp., nd.

(194-?) Folio, 4pp. Ownership inscription

in pencil on upper cover, creasing, light

wear, splitting to head and foot of fold,

very good. $25

SM2. CARSON, Kate. Happy as a Christmas

Tree. Toronto: Gordon V. Thompson

Ltd., nd. (195-?) Folio (single folded

sheet). Near fine. $15

SM3. PAULL, E. T. Ring Out Wild Bells.

New York: E. T. Paull’s, nd. (191-?)

Folio, 7pp. Damp stain to upper inner

corner, cover split completely along fold,

closed tears to fore-edge of all sheets,

trade stamps, very good. $50

SM4. PAULL, E.T. Silver Sleigh Bells. New

York: E. T. Paull Music Co., nd. (191-?)

Folio, 7pp. Cover split completely along

fold, loss to upper right corner of cover,

very good. $65

SM5. PERETTI, Hugo and Luigi Creatore.

Dance, Mr. Snowman, Dance. New York:

Keys Music Inc., nd. (195-?) Folio (single

folded sheet). Stamp of Thomas Anderson

Music, Hamilton, else near fine. $15