Father Christmas
Hamish Hamilton, 1973.
First edition. Glazed pictorial boards in pictorial dustwrapper. Bookplate signed by Briggs to front pastedown. This story is told in 28 pages of full colour animation with a few words from Father Christmas as he does his rounds, "Blooming Christmas". Also pictorial title page and half title vignette in colour. A fine copy in a near fine, bright dustwrapper.
A Christmas classic, Briggs depicts Father Christmas as he's rarely seen. "Blooming Christmas again, " he mutters as he gets out of his nice warm bed. "Briggs' Father Christmas is certainly a kindly white-haired old gentleman... but he is inclined to be grumpy, is very fond of his cup of tea, loves to sing in the shower, and is thoroughly human and endearing." (blurb)
Stock ID: 46463
