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Title: Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas

Author: Clement Clarke Moore

Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith


Release date: November 22, 2005 [eBook #17135]
Most recently updated: January 10, 2026

Language: English

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Twas the Night Before Christmas

A Visit from St. Nicholas

By Clement C. Moore

With Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith

Houghton Mifflin Company

Boston

Copyright © 1912 by Houghton Mifflin Company

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HC ISBN 0-395-06952-1
PA ISBN 0-395-64374-0

Printed in the United States of America

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