In the glass case in the reference room, this month we have a simple display of some of the library’s “press book” holdings published by the (locally) well known printer, the North Central Publishing Company. For a number of years they did attractively designed, limited edition publications, many centered on religious topics. Several are done with Christmas themes accompanied by seasonal art work, most often of very simple design.
Only a few fit in our glass case (indicated in the listing below) and, of course, the library does do not own all these “press books” but here is a quick and dirty bibliography of the shop’s “Christmas” production over the years:
Christmas Books, 1947-1981, issued by the North Central Publishing Company (St. Paul, MN)
• Brett, Laurence. A Cloud of Witnesses : Reflections Drawn from the Book of Hebrews for the Year of Faith. 1967.
• The Office of Matins for Christmas Day as Done at Sarum. 1955. ON DISPLAY
• The Word is Man : Three Christmas Sermons of Saint Leo the Great. 1964.
• In the Day of the Nativity of the Lord at Compline. 1981. ON DISPLAY
• The Church in the World : Inaugural Address of Pope Paul VI at the Second Session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. 1963.
• Ephraem, Syrus, Saint. Homiletic Rhythms on the Nativity. 1977.
• Gran, John M., Christmas in St. Paul. 1951.
• Hanson, Glenn. The Frontier Holiday : Being a Collection of Writings by Minnesota Pioneers Who Recorded their Divers Ways of Observing Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s. 1948.
• Hovda, Robert, Frank Kacmarcik. No Land in Shadows : A Meditation on the Infleshing of the Son of God. 1953.
• In Days to Come : Pleading of Man for Peace. 1969.
• Peace and Justice : The Address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II before the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Feast of the Guardian Angels. 1979.
• Kacmarcik, Frank. Worship for Christmas : The First Mass in the Night for Christmas. 1960.
• Maris Stella. The Animals’ Carol and Other Poems. 1976. ON DISPLAY
• McCarthy, Eugene J. And Time Began. 1968.
• Muellerleile, Al, John Bailey. Christmas 1947. 1947.
• Muellerleile, Al. The Holy Gospel According to Saint Mark. 1978.
• Muellerleile, Al. Alfred’s Christmas, Reminiscences of a Childhood Christmas. 1975.
• Muellerleile, Mary Alice, and Frank Kacmarcik. Seasons of Hope : Visions of Man’s Fulfillment. 1970. ON DISPLAY
• Tales for Christmas Reading : 1949. St. Paul: 1949.
• Verse for Christmas Reading. St. Paul: 1950.
• O’Brien, Joseph Philip. A Bushful of Birds. 1968.
• Proclus, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople. On the Incarnation of the Lord. 1961. ON DISPLAY
• Sangrinus, Angelus. A Mirror and Model for the Followers of Christ : The Life of the most Blessed and Saintly Benedict, Father and Patriarch of Monks. 1980.
• Shannon, James P. All Men Seek God. 1966. ON DISPLAY
• Walsh, John J., Jane McCarthy, and Frank Kacmarcik. A Nativity Sequence. 1954.