Christmas With Ed Sullivan
Written and compiled by Ed Sullivan with Betty Sullivan Precht, illustrated by Don Almquist.

Hardbound, 1st edition, various copyrights on individual pieces, printed in 1959, published by McGraw-Hill Book Co, 278 pp. Book is very good + condition, clean copy, binding is tight, DJ is tatty.

Among the writers collected in this book are: Ed Sullivan, Moss Hart, Bing Crosby, Truman Capote, Richard Cardinal Cushng, J.P. McEvoy, George Zaharias, Manuel Komroff, Edith Piaf, Jack Benny, Pearl S. Buck, Eleanor Gehrig, Heywood Broun, Walter Cronkite, Clark Gable, James Hilton, Gertrude Berg, Daniel A. Poling, Charles W. Thayer, David Niven, Betty Sullivan Precht, Bret Harte, Eddie Cantor, J. Edgar Hoover, William Anderson, Helen Hayes,, James Gardner, Damon RunyonSame Levinson, Hans Christian Anderson, Carlos P. Romulo, Christopher Morley, Oscar Hammerstein II,Moira Shearer, Lucy & Dezi Arnaz,Mary Ellen Chase, Jackie Robinson, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Dorthy Canfield Fishher, Cole Porter, Rise Stevens, Maurice Chevalier, Alexander Woollcott, Ted Williams, Perry Como, Gwen Verdon, Anton Checkhov, Richard Rogers, Dinah Shore Montgomery, Ben Hogan, Ring Lardner, Ralph W. Sockman, James Cagney, Danny Kaye, Francis P. Church.

 

Christmas by Cameron Brown An entertaining and informative little book to remind us all what lies behind the annual celebration of Christmas. Since about 400 AD, Christians have celebrated the birth of Jesus. 'Christ' means 'Messiah' or 'Anointed One' and 'Mass' is a religious festival. This elegant little book tells us about the religious background, the pagan precursors to the great festival and explores how Christmas is celebrated around the world today. How do you say "Happy Christmas" in Bulgarian? What does a Frenchman eat for his Christmas dinner? Who brings presents to a Syrian child (answer "a camel"!) and why do some countries celebrate Christmas on 24th December or 7th January? Which is "correct"? Publisher and author Cameron Brown informs and entertains with historical fact and amusing and little-known trivia. This book will entertain and inform and make a perfect Christmas gift.


This book is the ideal gift and a great stocking stuffer, perfect material for a quiet read in the smallest room in the house or to place in your guest room on the nightstand!

The book is 96 pages in length, 2 color and portrait format (7 1/4" H x 4 1/2" W).