An Unexpected Gift
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
An Unexpected Gift
Vancouver: Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2013
8vo., gold card wraps with sewn integrated dustwrapper printed in gold and metallic green, with decorative borders surrounding an inlaid line and watercolour label showing a reindeer and a penguin; endpapers printed with decorative design featuring repeating images of holly and mistletoe; [unpaginated]; printed throughout with calligraphic writing and decorations, borders and initials printed in green and red; line drawings enhanced in red; six full-page plates and one double-page at the centrefold, all in full colour; some pages with outer edge untrimmed; fine.
First edition, signed by Charles van Sandwyk in black ink beneath one of the plates.
The imaginative Christmas story of Bartholomew the Green, cousin of Father Christmas, and how together they unite North and South, Polar and South Polar, Arctic and Antarctic, to bring Christmas to a ‘wayward and needy world’. In the wake of a global thunderstorm, Nicholas enlists the help of his distant relative, who responds by saddling twenty four penguins and flying to the North. There, they fashion toys which run, not on electricity, but laughter, steam, and air, with creations including toy puddings, mechanical wonder-birds and Christmas steam boats.
“Electronic magic tends to break down…whilst Christmas magic is distilled down from imagination mixed purely with love.”
The story was recounted directly by Father Christmas and his cousin to their great, great, great, great Nephew, and henceforth directly to the author.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
An Unexpected Gift
Vancouver: Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2013
8vo., gold card wraps with sewn integrated dustwrapper printed in gold and metallic green, with decorative borders surrounding an inlaid line and watercolour label showing a reindeer and a penguin; endpapers printed with decorative design featuring repeating images of holly and mistletoe; [unpaginated]; printed throughout with calligraphic writing and decorations, borders and initials printed in green and red; line drawings enhanced in red; six full-page plates and one double-page at the centrefold, all in full colour; some pages with outer edge untrimmed; fine.
First edition, signed by Charles van Sandwyk in black ink beneath one of the plates.
The imaginative Christmas story of Bartholomew the Green, cousin of Father Christmas, and how together they unite North and South, Polar and South Polar, Arctic and Antarctic, to bring Christmas to a ‘wayward and needy world’. In the wake of a global thunderstorm, Nicholas enlists the help of his distant relative, who responds by saddling twenty four penguins and flying to the North. There, they fashion toys which run, not on electricity, but laughter, steam, and air, with creations including toy puddings, mechanical wonder-birds and Christmas steam boats.
“Electronic magic tends to break down…whilst Christmas magic is distilled down from imagination mixed purely with love.”
The story was recounted directly by Father Christmas and his cousin to their great, great, great, great Nephew, and henceforth directly to the author.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
An Unexpected Gift
Vancouver: Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2013
8vo., gold card wraps with sewn integrated dustwrapper printed in gold and metallic green, with decorative borders surrounding an inlaid line and watercolour label showing a reindeer and a penguin; endpapers printed with decorative design featuring repeating images of holly and mistletoe; [unpaginated]; printed throughout with calligraphic writing and decorations, borders and initials printed in green and red; line drawings enhanced in red; six full-page plates and one double-page at the centrefold, all in full colour; some pages with outer edge untrimmed; fine.
First edition, signed by Charles van Sandwyk in black ink beneath one of the plates.
The imaginative Christmas story of Bartholomew the Green, cousin of Father Christmas, and how together they unite North and South, Polar and South Polar, Arctic and Antarctic, to bring Christmas to a ‘wayward and needy world’. In the wake of a global thunderstorm, Nicholas enlists the help of his distant relative, who responds by saddling twenty four penguins and flying to the North. There, they fashion toys which run, not on electricity, but laughter, steam, and air, with creations including toy puddings, mechanical wonder-birds and Christmas steam boats.
“Electronic magic tends to break down…whilst Christmas magic is distilled down from imagination mixed purely with love.”
The story was recounted directly by Father Christmas and his cousin to their great, great, great, great Nephew, and henceforth directly to the author.