Author: Christy, Howard Chandler
Title: "Holiday Festivities at the U.S. Military Acdemy, West Point--The Christmas Hop" (full-page illustration) in Harper's Weekly (December 17, 1898)
Description: New York, 1898. First Edition. 0 pp. Disbound. Rogers, W.A. Peter S. Newell, Henry McCarter. Near fine in wrappers with light wear to spine where disbound and light wear to foredge and bottom edge of back page. ORIGINAL AND COMPLETE STELLAR ISSUE WITH PLENTY OF STORIES W/ FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, Outstanding "Holiday Festivities at the U.S. Military Acdemy, West Point--The Christmas Hop" by Howard Chandler Christy, "Christmas in Puerto Rico--A Cock Fight at Caguas" by F. Luis Mora, the story "A Spanish Money-Jar, A Christmas Story of Santiago" by Hezekiah Butterworth and illustrated by Henry McCarter, "Christmas in the Klondikes," story and illustrastion by Tappan Adney.[lus another illustration bt Peter S. Newell. Also, "Two Bronze Statuettes by Frederic Remington: 'The Triumph' and 'The Wicked Pony'" (photos) with article by Charles Caffen. Terrific full-page holiday ad for Williams Shaving Soaps, showing a happy girl atop her father's shoulder giving him a shave; also, half-page book ad for Theodore Roosevelt's collection of writings about the Spanish-American War, published by Scribner's. Near Fine.

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