Christmas Eve in the City of Toys
From Nutcracker of Nuremberg - A Christmas Fantasy Based upon the Old Hoffman Legend; Written and illustrated by Donald E. Cooke. (John C. Winston Co,1938)
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Henri Matisse 'Still Life with Nutcracker' ca. 1916.
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