Charles Dickens - Five 1940's editions of A Christmas Carol - 1940-1949

!) Illustrated by Tom Kerr.
Golden Galley Series.
London: Golden Galley Press. 1946.
First edition Thus.
Original paper dust wrapper. Now in archival film. Good, but with a little darkening to the front. Fading to the spine. Slight nicking to the bottom edge. Black hardback boards. Inside clean and tidy throughout.
104 pages. 19cm x 12.5cm.

2) Christmas Stories. With drawings by William Littlewood.
London: Heirloom library.
No date but 1949.
Hardback with decorated yellow boards. Clean, but slightly darkened. Internally clean, but with a little foxing to the pages. A decent copy.
288 pages. 8 colour plates and black and white vignettes throughout. 21.5cm x 14.5cm.

3) The cricket on the Hearth.
Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
No date. Illustrated by Francis D. Bedford.
Original dust wrapper. This has damp staining to the front of the wrapper. There is a split along the front spine edge of the wrapper. some loss. Now protected with archival film. Orange boards.
Internally in good, clean condition. Slight stain to top edge of pages.
182 pages. 22c, x 16.5cm.

4) A Christmas Carol illustrated by Fritz Kredel.
Mount Vernon New York: The Peter Pauper Press. 1943.
Hardback in slipcase. The red card slipcase is in good, clean condition.
Red spine with illustrated boards. Gift inscription to front end paper. Internally clean and tidy throughout with attractive two tone illustrations and vignettes. Limited to 1850 copies.
120 pages. 20.5cm x 14.5cm.

5) Christmas Carol retold for Children. Illustrated by Robert A Graef.
Springfield Mass. McLoughlin Bros inc.
1940. Hardback laminated boards. These are clean, with a touch of rubbing to the spine. Internally clean and tidy throughout.
Unpaginated. 17cm x 13.5cm.