St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas. New York: Century Co., 1900.
First Edition. Original illustrated cloth and dustjacket (designed by 'TBH', Thomas Brown Hapgood). A collection of plays and songs first published in St. Nicholas magazine. Includes Ballad of Mary Modern and Medieval Jane by Henry Baldwin; Acting Ballads by Amy Lovell; The House of Santa Claus by Edward Eggleston; Mother Goose Operetta by G. B. Bartlett; The Land of Nod by E. S. Brooks; The Giant Picture by G. B.Bartlett; Shadow Pantomimes by Herman H. Birney; The Magic Sword by Katharine Pyle; The False Sir Santa Claus by E. S.Brooks; A Sixteenth-Century Christmas by Charles A. Murdock; Christmas Eve at Mother Hubbard's by S. J. D.; A Lawn Dance for Little People by L. A.Bradbury; Dicky Dot and Dotty Dick by E. S. Brooks; An Old English Folk-Song by Edgar S. Kelley; Haydn's "Children's Symphony" by James Judson Lord; A Topsyturvy Concert by George Bradford Bartlett; The Changeling by Harriet Prescott Spofford. Very scarce in dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, top spine end lacking perhaps an inch of material.
Price: $250.00