The Two Christmas Celebrations, A.D. I and MDCCCLV. A Christmas Story for MDCCCLV.
signed first edition
1859 · Boston:
by PARKER, Theodore.
Boston:: Rufus Leighton, Jr., 1859. Book. Sm 4to, original ornamental cloth gilt. Pp. 46. Old label on spine, bookplate of Onteora Library and stamp on verso of title, from Mary Mapes Dodge's upstate NY retreat, with her signature on the front flyleaf. First edition of Parker's Christmas fables, published the year before his death. Not surprisingly, the tales stress liberal toleration and the humanity of Christ. This copy is signed by Mary Mapes Dodge, and bears the markings of the library at Onteora, her Catskill summer home and a noted gathering place of literati of the time.. (Inventory #: 457)