"The Animals' Christmas, Poems, Carols, and Stories", Chosen by Anne Thaxter Eaton, decorated and illustrated by Valenti Angelo, published by Viking, New York, first edition, second printing March 1945.

CONTENTS:

Christmas Legends;
Carol of the Birds;
Wassail, Wassail!;
So Hallowed and So Gracious Is the Time
The Barn;
The Splendid Gift;
The Friendly Beasts;
The Beautiful Lady;
Words from an Old Spanish Carol;
The Holy Night;
A Christmas Folk Song;
The Christmas Spider;
The Oxen;
The Little Pagan Faun;
Carol;
The Three Magi
Twelfth Night;
About a Noble Camel;
Eerily Sweet;
Dulce Domum;
Bethlehem
Acknowledgments

Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) (variant name Valenti Michael Angelo) was an Italian-American printmaker, illustrator and author, born June 23, 1897 in Massarosa, Italy. He immigrated to the United States, with his family in 1905, living first in New York City then settling in Antioch, California. At the age of nineteen, Angelo moved to San Francisco, working by day as a laborer and spending his evenings and weekends at libraries and museums. He soon became a versatile artist and an especially skilled engraver and printer. Angelo's favored medium was the lino-cut, and his prints depicting urban nocturnes and desert scenes of the American Southwest are particularly coveted by collectors and dealers. In 1926, Angelo made his first book illustrations for the well-known, San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press.

In a period of 34 years, Angelo decorated and illustrated roughly 250 books. Among these were folio editions of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville", and numerous books of the Bible. Many of these books have been included in the annual American Institute of Graphic Arts exhibitions since 1927. Under the tutelage of May Massee of Viking Press, Angelo began writing children's stories in 1937. In 1939, Angelo won the Newbery Honor for Nino. After a mid-life relocation to New York State, he returned to San Francisco in 1974 and continued his life's work. Angelo died in San Francisco on September 3, 1982.

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Hard boards, original decorated cloth, repairs and reinforcements, one leather corner missing: see scan; 5. 1/2" x 8. 1/4", 124 pages, discarded library book: binding, stamps and labels, surface damage from removed library bag inside back cover, a little soiling and wear, tight binding, fair/good condition.