The Birthday of Little Jesus by Sterling North
1953. First English Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrative jacket over illustrative paper covered boards. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Visible loss to spine ends. Tearing and splits to spine. Scuffing to edges. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Noticeable tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.