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We have several special
items to offer you this month.
2 Books
Some
folks have already seen our ad in Yankee
for copies of The Christmas Cat in paperback,
signed by Efner Holmes, and The Dolls'
Christmas (1994) hardcover. We are offering
each at $20 and that includes shipping.
If you combine the books with other items, then there will be a shipping
fee. This offer is good through
December 31. Items
18225 and 22557 on website.
Tasha's Spring Bouquet Moisturizing Cream!
Item 16673
Corgi
Cottage Industries introduced Tasha's specialty cream in 1998. Her claim on the original label: "I have made
it for years and think it's simply wonderf"
The ingredients are essential oils, rose water, violet water, vitamin E,
aloe vera and Ohio beeswax and honey. We used to sell these 4 ounce jars for
$13.50. We have a few left that we've
decided to sell for $7.50 to clear the shelves.
To be clear, we have only one jar remaining with the original label
designed by Tudor. We have several other
jars which are labeled Prairie Rose Rosewater Cream, but without the Tudor
designed label. These are definitely in
short supply. Order now while supplies
last.
Mary Mason Campbell library
Thank
you for your interest in the Campbell collection that we announced last month. The
copies with illustrations went quickly.
But we still have some of the books with and without Tudor's
inscriptions. You can find them on our
website by searching Mary Mason Campbell. Again, once these few items are gone,
they're gone.
Springtime Celebration print
Item 25771
Our
last special item for this month is the Jenny Wren Press print with two very
special signatures.
Bethany Tudor has a
few of the prints which her mother signed. Bethany has added her
own signature. These are authentic
signatures and have been in the possession of only Tudor family members until
this time. Each print will be shipped
flat, priority mail and insured.
They
are not matted or framed.
$125.00 each
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We still have available:
2 pieces of yellow ware formerly in Tasha Tudor's
collection.
These were once owned and used by Tasha Tudor in her
Webster, NH, home circa 1950-70, and subsequently owned by her daughter Bethany
Tudor, ca. 1970-2008.
LARGE YELLOW WARE BOWL Item 25773
$ 375.00
MILK PAN Item
25775 $425.00
Call us for more details.
800-818-8419
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The
leaves have turned and are well into their descent to the ground. Becky reminds
us that some of our customers have snow already. Here in southern New Hampshire, we had only a minor
spitting Thursday morning. But it presages the cold months ahead. And justifies the new roof that went on Cellar
Door Books' home last week. Here is the golden maple in our front yard.
Now,
our thoughts turn easily to a hot soup simmering - steak soup or chili con carne. We'll have tea with hot treats from the oven, or perhaps Boston brown bread steamed on
the stove. My favorite is an English tea cracker with jam. How very Pooh-like! Even
if it's cold as stone. The chill in the
wind is a great excuse for hot bread and crabapple jelly with our tea. And a little
cheese and sherry if I don't tell my doctor.
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Tasha Tudor's
Seasons of Delight; A Year on an Old-Fashioned Farm.
A Three-Dimensional Pop-Up Picture Book.
Those
are just the words on the cover of this delightful book. So you can imagine the painted "delights"
that await between the covers. Delight
is only a few steps away from Joy, for which Tasha Tudor always strove. This book is in some ways an inventive one
with Tudor once again reminiscing about her past life. She takes us along to share her delight and
joy. It is even more a pastiche of many
of her favorite themes brought together this time as a pop-up book. Remember, too, Tudor's First Delights (1966) where every page is a watercolor scene of
"Sally" sensing the four seasons of the year.
Tasha Tudor's Seasons of
Delight
has children everywhere throughout the book.
Children lounging in the grass with pets and a crow. Children dancing, making ice cream at the
back stoop, gathering eggs and collecting maple sap. It is all very familiar territory to Tudor
fans. The covers include the twig
frames that were used on Christmas cards of the 1950s and 1960s. The back cover depicts children on a snow
horse that we first saw in Snow Before
Christmas, a scene that was also later used as a Christmas card
design. Edgar the crow shows up on both
covers, and a fat Rhode Island red with her batch of new chicks scratches at
the bottom of the front cover.
Tudor often used the concept of an almanac and a visual tour of the year.
This is one more manifestation of that theme. There are four major
two-page illustrations, one for each season. Two additional scenes are an introductory pop-up, and a Christmas tree at the back. This
book gives us a special look into Corgi Cottage. Tudor protested that she cherished her
privacy, but here she has painted her home in many aspects. She shows us some part of her house on every
page. In fact, the introductory two-page
spread is a pop-up of Corgi Cottage and its appended barns from the outside. We would expect to find a summer picnic among
these scenes, and there is one. Food
with sniffing corgis is spread across a turkey red table cloth laid out by the
pond. And there is also a dancing
foursome which mirrors a 1950 Christmas card 15 T 42, "Christmas Square Dance". The original card placed the dance in the
winter kitchen of the McCready's Webster, NH, house. This one is more properly a barn dance in a
barn.
A
snow-covered Corgi Cottage pops up again in the winter illustration Tudor includes a self-portrait on page [11]
showing herself churning butter. The
final scene is Tudor's favorite and familiar gathering of children about a
lighted Christmas tree. The tree sits
in the Webster living room, red-curtained at one end for the Christmas
marionette show. All-in-all, the book
contains 31 different scenes around Tudor's farmstead and "around the year." Use it with the Richard Brown and Japanese photo
books to get a feel for Tasha Tudor's surroundings in her last 35 years.
Bibliographically,
we have five distinct copies of the book in our "Tasha Tudor collection." This is the collection on which Tasha Tudor: The Direction of Her Dreams
is based. The cover title of Seasons of Delight for the first
edition was printed in a butterscotch ink, priced at $13.95 and printed in Mexico. The book marks the transition of Tudor's editors
at Philomel from Ann Beneduce to Patricia Gauch. It may have been the last book that Beneduce
arranged with Tudor. It was also the
first to be published by Gauch. She
seems to have taken special care to have a blue leather box built for the
publisher's presentation copy to Tudor.
We have that copy in our collection with a gold TT embossed on the front
cover. The presentation case makes it
unique. The book is the same copy as
those in general sales.
A
second printing bears the publisher's same address in New York City, 51 Madison Avenue, and still at a $13.95
cover price. But now the cover title is
printed in black ink, and the production is noted: Columbia, South America.
A
third undated printing raised the price to $14.95, records the publisher's move
to 200 Madison Avenue, and now carries the
newly-introduced international bar code on the back cover.
The
last version we own is the French language Vive
les saisons! published by Editions G. P., Paris, in 1987. The International Standard Book Number for
this translation is 2-261-01825-8.
There is a bar code on the back cover, but no cover price. The title is in black; the production still
was executed in Columbia. The French book is a hint at the 1984/85 trip
Beneduce and Tudor spent together in France. You can read more about that in The L.E.T.T.E.R., vol. 5:1, Fall
1985. Beneduce often spent winters in France. She arranged for the French publication of Tasha Tudor's Seasons of Delight.
The book will remain a favorite of ours, and will
stand with Tudor's other paeans to the changing year: Around the Year, A Time to Keep, and Hitty's Almanac.
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Christmas Cards
Have you seen the price of greeting cards at the store these days
! Have we got a deal for you ! We have a good supply of the old Irene Dash
Christmas cards, and some from the subsidiary companies American Artists Group
and Art Guild Greetings.
We're created packages of ten of these cards - no two alike in any
one package. And we're offering them to
you, our preferred customers, at $30.00 for the package. That's just $3.00 a card for quality
merchandise that you won't find in any other shop. This is a show-stopper price. You can't match it at Hallmark or Borders or
Rite Aid.
The designs may be birds or children or Madonnas or country
scenes. The one catch is that the
mixture is our choice. You may have seen
one or two of the cards, but there'll be lots of new material for you, too. Order a package to start your own
collection of Tasha Tudor Christmas cards. These are not the modern Caspari cards, or the newer American Artists
Group from 5 years ago. These are all
vintage cards of the best kind.
Envelopes included, or course. This special is not on our website. Call us or email your order.
Order item number 25885
$30.00
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Thanks for Coming !!
It has been nice meeting so many of you who stopped by
to visit and shop. Cellar Door Books is by appointment only. We always welcome visitors but be sure to call in advance to set an appointment. That ensures that we'll be "on the job" when you arrive. We'll give you lots of reasons to take happy memories home to California, or South Carolina, or Michigan, or any other place in the world you my live.
Happy Holidays to you and your families.
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61 Borough Road
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