Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
"WHILE MOST REINDEERS' NOSES ARE BROWNISH AND TINY, POOR RUDOPLPH'S WAS RED, VERY LARGE AND QUITE SHINY": First edition, limited issue of Robert May's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; one of a limited number of copies signed by him and miniature book publisher Ward K. Schori
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
MAY, Robert L.
Item Number: 139244
Evanston, Illinois: The Schori Press, 1939.
Signed limited first edition of Mays’ beloved Christmas tale. 64mo, original publisher’s full Christmas red morocco with a gilt vignette of Rudolph to the front panel, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by May in red ink on the verso of the half-title page and by Ward K. Schori on the colophon, this is number 20. An exceptionally rare example of this highpoint of the Schori miniature book press.
The story is written as a poem in the meter of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." Rudolph's first screen appearance came in 1944, in the form of a cartoon short produced by Max Fleischer for the Jam Handy Corporation, that was more faithful to May's original story than Marks' song (which had not then yet been written). It was reissued in 1948 with the song added.
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