YES, VIRGINIA.
Francis Pharcellus Church
[Miniature Book – Somesuch Press] Dallas: Somesuch Press, 1978. 24pp. Designed by Anne O’Connor and printed by Harold McGrath. Foreword by Art Buchwald. Bond in blue cloth with printed paper title label on front cover. Miniature reprint (approx. 2 ¾” x 2”) of the 1897 editorial first published in the New York newspaper, The Sun, on September 21, 1897. First edition thus, limited to 300 copies. SIGNED by the printer. Fine copy. The title “Yes, Virginia” is a line from Church’s editorial “Is there a Santa Clause?” It was originally written as a response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asking whether Santa Clause was real.