POEMS including A Visit from St. Nicholas

by Clement Moore

$8,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844. Inscribed first edition of this collection of Moore's verse, the first with The Night Before Christmas, then still known by its original title, A Visit from St. Nicholas. Very good. Item #54950 With this poem, Clement Moore created the modern Santa Claus. Christian legends and European folktales of St. Nicholas had existed before, but Moore's imagery — helped along in the 1860s

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