The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale

by Philip van Doren Stern, Rafaello Busoni, Illustrations

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1944. First trade edition, Philadelphia issue priority unknown of the basis for the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life. 31 pp with frontispiece and in-text illustrations. Bound in publisher's illustrated blue boards. Very Good+ with light wear, front hinge slightly tender. In a Very Good+ unpriced dust jacket with a bit of edge wear; two innocuous tape repairs at verso.

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