First edition thus. One of what are known as 'Turnover Books' in which each volume in the series has two titles - in effect “two books in one.” One side of the book contains Clement C. Moore’s poem “The Night Before Christmas” (A Visit from St. Nicholas); the other side contains the Cinderella story (often titled “Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper”). The two texts share a single binding, with two front covers and two title pages. The book must be read one way for one story, then turned upside down and read the other way for the second story. Decorated red boards. Page edges and endpapers are red. No dust jacket. The boards are a little rubbed, particularly to spine head and tail. Overall a very good example of the earliest edition. The illustrations were first serialised by the Philadelphia North American Syndicate in Sunday supplements as "Children's Stories That Never Grow Old," September 1, 1907 to March 22, 1908. Reilly & Britton then issued them as single volumes, and in a collection Children's Stories That Never Grow Old (1908) John R. Neill (1877–1943) was an American illustrator best known for his work on L. Frank Baum’s Oz books for Reilly & Britton (later Reilly & Lee). He illustrated most of Baum’s Oz series from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). 64 pages. 19 x 14 cm