3 Christmas with Southern Living

THREE VOLUMES - CHRISTMAS WITH SOUTHERN LIVING, 1981, 1982, AND 1983 - OXMOOR HOUSE HARDCOVERS WITH DUST JACKETS Three consecutive annual volumes of Christmas with Southern Living - the 1981, 1982, and 1983 editions - published by Oxmoor House, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama, the book division associated with Southern Living magazine. All three are hardcover in the series' large square-ish format with bright photographic dust jackets: pine boughs and cones on the 1981, an antique toy still life on the 1982, and a spread of decorated Christmas cookies on the 1983. Each volume runs the familiar chapter mix of holiday decorating ideas, craft and bazaar projects with full-size patterns, seasonal recipes, gift suggestions, and a "Christmas Journal" planning section with day-by-day pages and a Holiday Snapshots page. Interior pages photographed here are clean, bright, and fully illustrated in color, and the journal pages appear unused. Bidders should note that the condition issues in this lot are in the dust jackets rather than the books: the 1981 and 1982 jackets have significant tears, chips, and losses at the corners and edges, and the 1982 jacket also shows tan spotting and soiling across the top of the front panel. These are popular volumes with collectors of the series, with holiday cooks who use the cookie and confection recipes, and with anyone chasing a complete run of the annuals. This lot pairs with the other estate kitchen, cookbook, and holiday lots offered in this sale. Sold as a lot of 3 books. Description Christmas with Southern Living 1981 - hardcover with pictorial dust jacket showing pine sprigs, cones, and red berries on a cream ground. Title page reads Christmas with Southern Living 1981 / Compiled & Edited by Candace N. Conard and Jo Voce / Oxmoor House, Inc., Birmingham. Red endpapers. Front jacket flap carries a price of $12.95 and a jacket description of the contents; the rear jacket panel carries the Oxmoor House imprint with the Post Office Box 2463, Birmingham, Alabama address and an ISBN beginning 0-8487-0522, with the final digits not clearly legible in the photograph. Christmas with Southern Living 1982 - hardcover with pictorial dust jacket showing antique cast-iron and tin toys, wood alphabet blocks, spinning tops, and a china-head doll. Title page reads Christmas with Southern Living 1982 / Compiled & Edited by Jo Voce and Candace N. Conard / Oxmoor House, Inc., Birmingham. Red endpapers, red-and-white houndstooth-pattern printed board edges visible at the spine area. Front flap shows ISBN 0-8487-0535-1 and a price of $12.95; rear jacket panel repeats ISBN 0-8487-0535-1 with the Oxmoor House imprint. Christmas with Southern Living 1983 - hardcover with pictorial dust jacket showing decorated sugar cookies, gingerbread figures, and iced ornament cookies. Title page reads Christmas with Southern Living 1983 / Jo Voce and Shelley Stewart / Oxmoor House, Inc., Birmingham. Red endpapers. Rear jacket panel shows the Oxmoor House imprint and ISBN 0-8487-0543-2. A pale green adhesive note or sticky tab is attached at the top edge of this volume and is visible in several photographs. Dimensions: each volume measures approximately 10-1/4 to 10-1/2 inches tall and approximately 8-3/4 inches wide per the tape-measure photographs. On the measuring shots the tape hook rests on the table or on top of the cover rather than hooked over the book edge, so both figures are close estimates. Spine thickness and page counts were not measured. Bidders should verify all dimensions from the photographs. Interior content photographed includes a "Mantels & Windows" decorating chapter with full-color room and mantel photography, the craft and bazaar project sections, the recipe chapters, and the blank "Christmas Journal" calendar and Holiday Snapshots pages. Jacket flap text on the 1982 and 1983 volumes describes the Christmas Bazaar craft chapter, the Celebrations from the Kitchen recipe chapter, the Joys of Giving gift chapter, and the full-size pattern section at the back of the book. Attribution note Christmas with Southern Living was the annual holiday volume published by Oxmoor House, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama, the book publishing arm associated with Southern Living magazine and its parent Southern Progress organization. The series ran annually from the early 1980s forward for many years, each volume combining decorating features, craft projects with full-size patterns, tested seasonal recipes, and a holiday planning journal, which is why complete or partial runs of the early 1980s volumes are collected today. Publisher, editor, and ISBN details given above are quoted directly from the title pages, jacket flaps, and rear jacket panels as photographed. Edition and printing status were not established - no printing-line or copyright-page photographs are included - so no claim of first printing is made. Identification and dating are offered as the consignor's photo-based opinion and are not guaran