A Vintage Christmas


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This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia. Filled with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Vintage Christmas is a unique collection of lesser-known Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season. Discover a charming story from L. M. Montgomery about love and sacrifice in a little log house. See Christmas through the eyes of a child in a New England colonial village with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Remember the reason Christ came to earth in the poetry of Anne Brontë. Share with your family the delightful letter Mark Twain wrote as Santa Claus to his three-year-old daughter. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Vintage Christmas is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes. Hardcover, giftable size Perfect as a stocking stuffer and host or hostess gift Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Classic Christmas and A Timeless Christmas




A Very Vintage Christmas


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A Very Vintage Christmas embodies the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with the holiday season. Vintage ornaments, lights, decorations, cards and wrapping all conjure up happy memories of Christmases past and serve as tangible mementos of holidays shared with family and friends. In fact, finding these objects, decorating with them and sharing them with others brings an instant feeling of comfort and joy. Coupled with beautiful photographs, tips on collecting, and secret shopping haunts, A Very Vintage Christmas offers a 360-degree look at holiday décor in America and gives suggestions on how to make vintage finds work for today’s audience. While each chapter of A Very Vintage Christmas is unique, there is a common thread that runs through them all: the love of beautiful holiday decorations, and the interest in their history, value, and preservation. The book helps the everyday collector and enthusiast to build their own collection and offers tips on how to make the most of what they’ve got.




Creative Haven Vintage Christmas Greetings Coloring Book


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Derived from rare sources, 31 timeless images re-create authentic holiday greeting cards featuring smiling Santas, cherubic children, decorated trees, snowy scenes, and other traditional motifs. Previously published as Vintage Christmas Greetings Coloring Book.




Vintage Christmas


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These charming illustrations from Christmases past recapture the holiday spirits of the mid-twentieth century, the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and other historic periods. Bursting with nostalgic appeal, this book and CD-ROM collection contains more than 360 images, including templates that make it easy to print and send 72 greeting cards and 20 postcards.




A Vintage Christmas


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Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales. 'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas’ said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to scrumptious food to presents under the tree, from cold winter nights in Victorian London to countryside festivities by the fire, from the melancholies of the season to the injustices, our best writers have seen it all and written it down. A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us and what real magic can be found, written by some of the world’s finest authors, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Laurie Lee, E. Nesbit and Alice Munro. Stories in A Vintage Christmas: ‘Carol-Barking’ from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee ‘Obadiah Oak, Mrs Griffiths and the Carol Singers’ by Louis de Bernières ‘The Turkey Season’ by Alice Munro ‘Christmas at Thompson Hall’ by Anthony Trollope ‘Christmas Shopping’ from The Green Road by Anne Enright ‘A Conscience Pudding’ from The New Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit ‘Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm’ by Stella Gibbons ‘There Never Was Such a Goose’ from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ‘Let Nothing You Dismay’ by Helen Simpson ‘Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor’ by John Cheever ‘A Serious Talk’ by Raymond Carver ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ by Arthur Conan Doyle VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.




A Vintage Christmas


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Evie has the perfect job and the perfect man, but keeping both in her life has become a serious balancing act... With the sales coming to a close at Hardy's, Evie must source new stock for the season ahead. Her mind is constantly buzzing with ideas and layouts, so much so that she is forgetting all about Sam. Can she learn to keep her work separate from her home life? Or will she lose everything... Ali Harris weaves a story of Christmas miracles in this magical short story eBook exclusive!







Knit a Vintage Christmas


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Nothing sparks nostalgia like Christmastime. We watch the holiday classics like It's a Wonderful Life and pull out our same decorations each year because we love the memories they bring. The patterns in Knit a Vintage Christmas will both evoke memories of bygone eras and become heirloom decorations you will use year after year. Some of the patterns in this book are classics--vintage patterns updated for the modern knitter--and some are new patterns with a vintage feel. All will inspire your Christmas spirit--now and for years to come!




Vintage Christmas Photos


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Do you yearn for the innocence of Christmas past? Or do you enjoy seeing how it was in the "good old days"? Here's a collection of vintage Christmas photos to make your wish come true!




A Vintage Christmas


Book Description

Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales. 'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas’ said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to scrumptious food to presents under the tree, from cold winter nights in Victorian London to countryside festivities by the fire, from the melancholies of the season to the injustices, our best writers have seen it all and written it down. A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us and what real magic can be found, written by some of the world’s finest authors, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Laurie Lee, E. Nesbit and Alice Munro. Stories in A Vintage Christmas: ‘Carol-Barking’ from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee ‘Obadiah Oak, Mrs Griffiths and the Carol Singers’ by Louis de Bernières ‘The Turkey Season’ by Alice Munro ‘Christmas at Thompson Hall’ by Anthony Trollope ‘Christmas Shopping’ from The Green Road by Anne Enright ‘A Conscience Pudding’ from The New Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit ‘Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm’ by Stella Gibbons ‘There Never Was Such a Goose’ from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ‘Let Nothing You Dismay’ by Helen Simpson ‘Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor’ by John Cheever ‘A Serious Talk’ by Raymond Carver ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ by Arthur Conan Doyle VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.