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Christmas Curiosities
By John Grossman
Hardcover, 224 pages (retail $17.95)
Christmas wasn’t always the warm-and-fuzzy holiday we know today. This colorful collection of antique illustrations from 19th century postcards, advertisements and storybooks reveal the season’s much darker roots, with depictions of creepy Santas, rat-roasting fairies, bawdy carolers and bawling children getting their bundle-of-switches comeuppance. For anyone who likes the smorgasbord of holiday sweetness tempered with a little pinch of seasoning salt, Christmas Curiosities makes a perfect stocking stuffer.
—Neil Pond, American Profile
first appeared: 10/12/2008
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