Author: (Willard, Howard). Morley, Christopher.
Title: Don't Open Until Christmas. With Decorations by Howard Willard.
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1931. 1931. - Octavo, pictorial green paper covered boards with a reindeer motif backed with a red cloth spine. 26 pages, with delightful black & white illustrations by Howard Willard. The original publisher's wapper is Lacking. Very good.

First edition.

A wonderful witty little book for the bibliophile in which Santa Claus philosophizes and quotes classic authors - Asked by Mrs. Claus what he'd given mankind this year: "'I wondered a good deal,' he said. 'I wondered whether to geve them another Conrad to teach them pity, or another Anatole France to show them how to mock themselves. But what I did give them was the greatest of all gifts.' He paused and drank down a glassfull or hot toddy with a shudder of content. 'I gave them the privilege, for just one day, of not thinking at all.'. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED; CHRISTMAS BOOK; CHRISTOPHER MORLEY; MODERN; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; HOWARD WILLARD; ILLUSTRATIONS; DECORATIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; DON'T OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS.

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