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B&W Era illustrations; Green & White decorations. New in As New jacket. Book CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1991 Summit Books hardcover (olive boards with recessed snowflakes) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. PROBLEM: DJ has been price-clipped. The interior clean and tight. B&W story-era illustrations with green & white decorations. CONTENT: "Gardner does an excellent job of providing background to the original "Night Before Christmas". In essence, he argues that Moore's poem, and the great Santa Claus illustrations of Thomas Nast, established North America's contribution to (Christmas) mythology-Santa Claus as we now know him, the jolly fellow who flies around the world, at Christmas Eve, on a sleigh pulled by eight named reindeer, dropping down chimneys, and leaving gifts. Gardner concludes by considering the background to the later, other major North American contribution to mythology, the invention of the NINTH reindeer-Rudolph of the famous red nose. The collection of parodies is extremely varied, and not always fascinating. But they are often very amusing, and certainly display a wide variety of cultures and historical circumstances! " [Very clever stories, IMHO, so be ready to laugh. ]