Poor Gabriella: A Christmas Story by Victoria Forrester illustrated by Susan Seddon Boulet SIGNED Hardcover in Dust Jacket 1986 Atheneum

Title: Poor Gabriella: A Christmas Story

Author: Victoria Forrester

Illustrator: Susan Seddon Boulet

Description: Inscribed by Boulet on the half-title page with a small illustration of a candle. First Edition with full number line. Blue cloth boards with a gilt star on the front and gilt lettering on the spine. Burgundy colored end-papers. Interior is clean. Rear end-paper has a couple creases. Dust jacket has a little bit of wear/color loss at the head and foot of spine; a couple very short closed tears; faint/shallow creases on rear panel; not price clipped (12.95). DJ in clear archival sleeve.

A Christmas Nativity story. The poor cow Gabriela is locked out in the cold while all the other animals are inside the warm barn, surrounding Mary, Joseph, and the Christ child. A great wind startles Joseph and he goes to open the door. Susan Seddon Boulet (1941-1997) was born in Brazil to British parents and was raised on a farm. In 1967 she immigrated to the United States where she married and pursued her art. She lived in Oakland, California. The calligraphy by John Prestianni is in a chancery italic, based on 16th century models.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Atheneum

Place: New York

Year: 1986

ISBN: 0689312652

Language: English

Size: 10.25" x 8".

Pages: Approximately 29 color illustrated pp. (unpaginated).

Keywords: children's, illustrated, fiction, Jesus Christ,