ESTES, Eleanor; Susanne SUBA [Illus.] ~ The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1976.

4to., red publisher's boards, lettered vertically in gilt to spine; together in the clipped pictorial dustwrapper showing two figures holding a Christmas Tree; illustrated throughout with frontis and numerous drawings in line by Susanne Suba; THE BOOK just a little bumped at spine tips, with some marginal toning to the edges of pages; THE WRAPPER very good with some overall toning, light creasing at spine tips, and slightly faded to the backstrip. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, originally published in the U.S. three years prior. A wonderful Christmas story by Eleanor Estes, who had won the Newbery Prize in 1951 for her dog-themed children's book, 'Ginger Pye'. This story follows ten year old Marianna and her brother Kenny, who desperately try to convince their bohemian mother for a Christmas tree - and bring home a myriad of abandoned trees in the hope that they might sway her. The illustrator Susanna Suba painted covers for the New Yorker, and illustrated over 25 children's books in her lifetime, some of them by her husband. Many of her works are now held at the Smithsonian and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. A lovely copy.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Very Good ++