{"id":3250,"date":"2016-01-18T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T21:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2016-04-03T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:19:29","slug":"250a-a-long-lost-christmas-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/250a-a-long-lost-christmas-book\/","title":{"rendered":"250A: A Long Lost Christmas Book (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings from upstate New York!
\nI hope you can help me identify and find a book I had as a child.
\nI do not know the title or what the cover looked like because my copy was missing the cover. But here are the facts as I remember them:<\/p>\n

I was born in 1960, so this book had to be late 50’s early – mid 60’s
\nIt was a Christmas book – containing many different stories\/legends from the birth of Christ to the real Saint Nicholas to Christmas legends like the Christmas Spider
\nIt was a large, oversized book, say 12″ x 18″ ish. It was not a thick book.<\/p>\n

What was so great about it was the artwork – very beautiful renderings – not cartoony or modernish, more like realistic paintings. So the art was appealing for even adults, but the stories were short, maybe one or two per page. If I had to guess, I would say the art style was something similar to this picture below.<\/p>\n

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As a child, the images I remembered the most was the story of St. Nicholas paying the dowries of three poor women. They were all sleeping in a bed and he threw a bag of gold in through the window.
\nThere was also a story of this flying ( but I don’t remember it with wings!), hairy, red-eyed beast with sharp tusks\/teeth, but I can’t remember the story. LOL – I don’t think it was Krampus, because it was more like an animal (wolfish) than a human devil guy.
\nAnother feature was the rich colors of the end papers. Like a renaissance fabric pattern. I think red with a little blue and gold in a repeating diamond pattern, I think – it has been a long time since the book was lost or given away.<\/p>\n

So I know these are a lot of random details – I wish I had the title and publisher, but maybe you can help me – my desire is to purchase a replacement copy to pass on to future grandkids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings from upstate New York! I hope you can help me identify and find a book I had as a child. I do not know the title or what the cover looked like because my copy was missing the cover. But here are the facts as I remember them: I was born in 1960, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,10,14,21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}