"A Christmas Carol" - The MacMillan Company (1950) - Intro

"A Christmas Carol" (1950)

Illustrator: Robert Ball

The MacMillan Company (1950)

Here's a snappy American edition of "A Christmas Carol" from 1950, published by the MacMillan Company and illustrated by Robert Ball.

This looks to me like it's for kids based on the artwork, with an illustration every couple of pages, but the text is not changed at all, so it's not Americanized or dumbed-down.

It reminds me most of the Wonder Books edition from 1957 (discussed here, here, here, here, here and here ) but that one did have the text adapted.

I like Robert Ball's art, which seems very 1950s to me.

I can't find much information about the artist, as the name is relatively common.

There's a prominent British artist named Robert Ball who was active in 1950, but this doesn't appear to be the illustrator of this book.

Anyway, since there are a lot of illustrations, let's do a stave by stave breakdown!