Description
Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, wear at the head and foot of spine, tear at the bottom of the jacket at the spine and wear at the edges of front cover. The Very Good binding is red paper over boards; white cloth-backed with gilt stamping on the spine. Untrimmed fore-edge. The binding is tight and pages are clean.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
Christmas Eve was a tradition at Miss Carrie’s boardinghouse. All year she insulted and bullied her “guests,” most of whom seemed to fail to appreciate the privilege of living in a home presided over by a lady, but on Christmas Eve each year she entertained them at a command performance.
The ritual was always the same: they trimmed the tree under her watchful eye, fruit punch and cookies were served, and everyone was allowed to look at Miss Carrie’s precious Christmas album, record of happier and more prosperous times. But tonight, one by one, the “guests” had presented their excuses and Miss Carrie was left alone in bitterness.
Then, out of nowhere, Kenny appeared, small, alone, defenseless. Miss Carrie was outraged at first-who had dared smuggle him into her house? She could not countenance a child there, spreading disorder among her precious heirlooms. Yet he was s0 small, so alone..
This touching Christmas story, a reworking of the age-old legend of the Christ child who enters the hearts of men, is such a wonderful emotional experience, so warm, so rewarding, so crammed with he Yuletide spirit that any reader will enjoy and long remember it.
About the authors: (from the dust jacket)
Clark McMeekin is the joint pseudonym of Dorothy Park Clark and Isabel McLennan McMeekin. Under it they have produced many successful books, including Show Me a Land. Reckon with the River, Gaudy’s Ladies and City of the Flags. Both authors write under their own names, too. Mrs Clark has written a number of mys- teries and volumes of verse, and Mrs. McMeekin is the author of several books for children.
