Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens sA Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens s own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, Editiotypeset version of the story, a fascinating introduction by the Morgan s chief literary curator on the history of the story, and a new foreword by Colm Toibin celebrating its timeless appeal."