Lanterns Across the Snow
Long Barn Books, 1998.
Special edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine and vignette to upper board, housed in original red card slipcase. Signed by the author on the title page. Pictorial endpapers. Woodcut illustrations throughout by John Lawrence. A fine copy.
A collection of lyrically written Christmas stories by Hill, accompanied by Lawrence's charming woodcut illustrations. Broken into three chapters - Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St. Stephan's Day - the book deals with the narrator's remembrance of one magical, perfect Christmas - the sort of Christmas that only happens in those years of childhood that are so full of wonder, filled with gorgeous descriptions of nature and food and family.
Stock ID: 46078
