Moore and how he came to write the poem, — A Visit from St. Nicholas.

NY, Wanderer Bks/Simon Schuster, (1971). 2nd ptg. VG PB: facsimile of 1848 edition. Includes reproductions ofthe b/w engravings by the 19th century artist T. C. Boyd. Only two copies of the 1848 edition from. which this facsimile was made are believed to exist. Moore was a 19th century poet and scholar who graduated from Columbia University in 1798 and was later a trustee of the university and lived with his family in NYC. Small sized book.