Item #20885 Nine Days to Christmas. Marie Hall Ets, Aurora LaBastida.
/MHE, illustrator.

Nine Days to Christmas.

New York: Viking, 1966/1959, 7th printing; reinforced boards with wrap around painting of Ceci and the posada procession; plain endpapers, in similar jacket with Caldecott Medal sticker, 4 to; 48 pp. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib.

A little girl, her first posada, and the fate of her piñata. Lovingly rendered illustrations of upper middle class Mexico City domestic life in the 50's. Caldecott Medal.

CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket; ex-lib, few marks, jacket protector was pasted down and glue dots remain, white endpaper has been sanded clean where pocket was removed, title page stamps removed, a little read copy with crisp clean pages; crisp, clean jacket with medal in nice condition, stain from gold library edition band and library price of $3.37, small blue ink "j" stamped on lower spine. Item #20885

Price: $50.00

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