Get into the holiday spirit than by visiting the Special Collections Literature and Rare Books Collection in Hornbake Library! On display now in the Maryland Room are books written by celebrated authors about the holiday season or retelling classic tales. Visit the UMD Libraries hours website for our holiday hours – you definitely don’t want to miss this display!
Books featured in the display include:
- The Night Before Christmas, Clement C. Moore. Porter & Caotes: Philadelphia, 1883
- A Christmas Story, Katherine Anne Porter. Mademoiselle: New York, 1958
- The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, T.S. Eliot. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy: New York
- Two Christmas Tales, Ernest Hemingway. The Hart Press: Berkeley, 1959
- A Christmas Dream, Louisa May Alcott. Little, Brown & Co.: Boston. 1901
- The Wood-Pile, Robert Frost. Spiral Press: New York, 1961
- Christmas Verse. Oxford University Press: New York, 1945
- The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus, Ogden Nash. Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1962
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens. G. Routledge: London, 1880
- Old Christmas, Washington Irving. Judd and Dettweiler: Washington, 1934
- Come Christmas: A selection of Christmas poetry, song, drama, and prose, Lesley Frost. Coward-McCann Inc.: New York, 1935
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