"A Christmas Carol" - The MacMillan Company (1950) - Stave 5

We reach Stave 5 of MacMillan's 1950 edition of "A Christmas Carol" with the illustrations of Robert Ball:

Solid work! All of the characters on-model!

"A Christmas Carol" - The MacMillan Company (1950) - Stave 4

Moving along, we encounter Robert Ball's illustrations for Stave 4 of the MacMillan Company's 1950 edition of "A Christmas Carol":

I like these a lot!

"A Christmas Carol" - The MacMillan Company (1950) - Stave 3

We move on to Stave 3 of MacMillan's 1950 edition of "A Christmas Carol" with illustrations by Robert Ball:

More good work!

"A Christmas Carol" - The MacMillan Company (1950) - Stave 2

Next up is Stave 2 as illustrated by Robert Ball and published by the MacMillan Company in 1950:

One thing I like about these editions with lots of illustrations is that you get just about every scene represented.

Interestingly, you can't really see the notoriously hard-to-illustrate Ghost of Christmas Past!

"A Christmas Carol" - The MacMillan Company (1950) - Stave 1

Here's the first set of illustrations by Robert Ball from MacMillan's 1950 edition of "A Christmas Carol":

I like these a lot! You can follow the story without the text!

"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!