Take Joy! The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book
- Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1966
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1966. Very good. Some wear and minor chipping to dust jacket extremities. Internally fine.. First edition of Tasha Tudor's Christmas book "Take Joy!" in an early printing, featuring the blue dust jacket with $4.95 price on upper dust jacket flap, with opposite lower corner clipped. Includes six sections: Christmas Thoughts; Christmas Stories; Christmas Poems; Christmas Carols; Christmas Lore and Legends; and Tasha Tudor's Christmas. Includes musical notation for the carols, and, most charmingly, recipes for pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce. Index in rear. Single vol. (8.5" by 11.5"), pp. 157, [3], illus., in original publisher's red cloth stamped in gold and black with decorated endpapers. Contemporary inscription "From Mother" in black ball point pen to front free endpaper recto.