Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story

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Overview:

Title: Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story
Author: Anne Carroll Moore
Year: 1924
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Price: $2.00
Pages: ix+331
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story
Notes: 1st ed. LCCN and OCLC: "New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924" Catalog record at HathiTrust Digital Library, with word/phrase counts by page (eg 113 for Christmas, 0 Hallowe'en or Halloween); "Snippets may be available for some items if you log in."

Published for the Christmas season 1924. Van Everen completed the illustrations for 1923 but the writer missed that year's deadline. Anne Carroll Moore's column "The New Children's Books", The Bookman 1924-10 p60, includes other remarks on the process, and remarks on children's book illustration --but no review of course (and no price).

ISBN-10 9997488709 at Amazon as of 2016-06-02 (1st printing, June 1924)

Price from advertisement by the publisher NY Times 1924-11-09 pBR18, "Children's Book Week finds the House of Putnam well represented ...", this title featured first