The Night Before Christmas
The Night Before Christmas, properly A Visit from St. Nicholas, is a poem first printed anonymously in the Troy Sentinel in Troy, New York, on 23 December 1823. It was credited to Clement Clarke Moore in 1837, and Moore included it in his Poems of 1844; some credit Henry Livingston Jr.
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- Troy Sentinel, Troy, New York, 1823
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- Mathews & Clasback1857 Hardback Not yet valued Log in to want this
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We track 2 editions of The Night Before Christmas. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
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Check the title page and its reverse (the copyright page) against the edition: publisher, place and date should match, with no later printing or edition stated. Where we know the issue points, they are listed on the edition's page.
Where these facts come from
- A Visit from St. Nicholas, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- A Visit from St. Nicholas (Q1704645), Wikidata (wikidata.org)
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