The Story of Christmas
Felix Hoffmann
Hardcover
(Everyman Ltd, Aug. 1, 1976)
First published in great Britain 1976. Reprinted 1977, 1978, 1979. Copyright 1975 by Fukuinkan Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo Japan. US translation copyright 1975 by Atheneum Publishers. Printed and bound in Japan. ISBN 0460067788. First sentence: Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Nazareth, a little town in Judea, a girl named Mary who was to marry Joseph, a carpenter.