Description
The first edition of Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse by Eugene Field, a presentation copy to Joseph Tumulty, Jr., the son of President Wilson’s longtime personal secretary.
Octavo, 119pp. Olive cloth, title and decorations stamped in gilt and black on front cover and spine. The first edition, with “Published October, 1912” stated on the copyright page. Complete with eight color plates, including frontispiece, six black-and-white plates, and additional illustrations throughout by Florence Storer. Light rubbing to boards, some loss of gilt along cover illustration. In the publisher’s scarce pictorial dust jacket, $1.50 net retail price on spine, tape repairs to both panels and the spine, a good example.
Inscribed in an unknown hand: “From President Wilson / Christmas 1915. To Joseph Tumulty, Jr.”
