Author: DICKENS, Charles
Title: A Christmas Carol
Description: Mount Vernon, NY, The Peter Pauper Press, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Donald McKay. 12mo. Decorative paper over boards, decorative price-clipped dust jacket. 93pp. All-red line drawings, decorative red running heads. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight and bright undated later printing of this cute as a button circa 1960 edition -- bearing choice autograph addition: Title page features McKay illustration showing Tiny Tim Cratchit, crutch in hand, astride his father's shoulder on a busy London street, and the blank facing page bears a unique frontispiece, for onto it is tipped a bold "Best wishes" and signature in black ink on 3" X 4" blue sheet of TERRY KILBURN (born 1926), the child star who played Tiny Tim in the popular 1938 film version. Fine. Undated, but clearly a juvenile signature exemplar likely on 1940s vintage. .

Keywords: British Literature


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