Christmas

Last night I listened to Mary McPartland’s Christmas “All About Jazz” broadcast that included her reading of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”.

“A Child's Christmas In Wales was published in 1955. It is an anecdotal sketch of the festive season which emerged from a piece originally written for radio. It is an exercise in storytelling and Thomas recreates the experience of Christmas as though it were a fairy tale.”

Hers was a wonderful rendition. I always enjoy her programs and try to catch them on Friday night – Jazz night - on our Public Broadcasting radio station.

I have a small hardcover reprint of an edition illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. The original 1969 Eichenberg edition with prints signed by the master engraver can be found here:

Author: (EICHENBERG, FRITZ) THOMAS, Dylan.
Title: A Child's Christmas in Wales. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.

Description: New York: New Directions, 1969, 4to, cloth with leather spine, with cloth portfolio for signed suite of Eichenberg prints. An account of a Christmas day in a welsh town from the author's childhood. Illustrated with full page drawings. This is one of 100 specially bound copies of the deluxe edition. Specially printed at the Thistle Press and bound in two volumes, signed by Fritz Eichenberg on the justification leaf. The separate portfolio consists of five signed wood engravings by Eichenberg. Very scarce thus. Item # 7998 $2,500.00

A really nice Christmas present!!!!