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This combination of book cover images shows some of the many books authored by President Jimmy Carter, top row from left, “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood,” “Christmas in Plains: ...

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Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

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Image: public domain A Christmas Carol ... of the book's physical appearance, noting that it's "a pretty little book to look at" thanks to its gilt-edged pages, and crimson cotton cover.

Many of our best-known carol ... Christmas song—many collections include Easter carols and other varieties, and folk carols like “Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day” have many verses which ...

The Carols for Choirs series ‘changed the whole sound of Christmas for everybody who sings,’ says the composer and choral conductor Sir John Rutter. And Sir John should know. He edited the second, ...

By Christmas Eve, the first edition of 6000 books had sold out ... Dickens enlisted artists to create additional images for the early publications of A Christmas Carol. The black and white ...