Alias Santa Claus : A Play For Children (First Edition Christmas Play)
New York / London: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. Clara Elsene Peck. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Christmas play set in a wealthy home with "colorful dialogue", it is attractive for both reading and acting with a cast of eighteen. Cloth backed decorative boards, title printed in green onto paste-down label, glossy illustrated endpapers, 12mo (7-3/8 inches [18.8 cm] tall), pp. (ii), 58, with "(1)" printed at foot of last page indicating a first printing. Volume with light edge wear and some small splash marks to the first few pages, else unmarked. Price-intact DJ is soiled with a few chips and small tears. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2553
Credited artwork by Clara Elsene Peck on the DJ and glossy duo-tone endpapers, [who] "... was a member of the American Watercolor Society, exhibited extensively and won many awards." Reed (2001) p. 111.
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