x, 354, [2] pp. Green leather with gilt and white titles and decorations, color nutcracker image mounted in center of front board, color endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of holiday stories and illustrations by various authors and artists. "This Christmas treasury features 10 heart-warming stories, including the title tale by Alexander Dumas which inspired the well-known ballet. The contents also include works by Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery and L. Frank Baum, as well as the full text of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol. In addition, the collection includes a dozen poems, led by Clement Clark Moore s famous account of the night before Christmas, A Visit from St. Nicholas . The entire book features full-colour artwork from the Golden Age of Illustration."
