Simon and Schuster, New York, 1974, 2^nd pr.  ISBN 0-671-21868-9.  Hard cover, 507 pages including Biographical Notes.  Green boards with silver lettering and decoration on red cloth spine; a bit of rubbing along paper edges meeting cloth, a bit of sunning along top and bottom edges; binding sound with headbands.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows some edge and cover wear, vertical crease on rear flap fold; old water mark at lower spine; spine a bit sunned.  Book interior clean and unmarked; a few spots and light soil on outer page block, two small water marks on bottom edge.  ‘America’s beloved Nobel Prize-winner, Pearl S. Buck, has brought together thirty-nine favorite short stories by such great nineteenth-century writers as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Washington Irving, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Feodor Dostoyevsky and many others.  Through their art you will share the emotions and experiences of a variety of fascinating people who celebrate Christmas in many different ways.’ (from front flap)