CHRISTMAS POEMS AND PICTURES With Twas The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Moore, Thomas Nast

$1,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New York: James G. Gregory, 1864 but 1863 . Civil War-era holiday compendium with an early printing of A Visit From St. Nicholas the original name of the famous poem and an engraving of Santa by Thomas Nast inspired by the poem. Very good. Item #35668 The Santa Claus now synonymous with many Western Christmas traditions was not born at the North Pole, but in Civil War-era America. Bavarian immigrant Thomas Nast, a

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