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"  While It&amp;#039;s A Wonderful Life is well loved and widely known today, the novella it&amp;#039;s based on had a much different reception. When Philip Van Doren Stern penned The Greatest Gift, he couldn&amp;#039;t find a publisher for his story about a Christmas Eve encounter with a guardian angel. Determined to share his story, Van Doren Sterns self-published 200 copies of the book and sent them to friends as Christmas cards in 1943. As luck would have it, one copy fell into the hands of a Hollywood producer, who immediately recognized that the story was fit for the silver screen and optioned the film rights.  Another one of the copies found its way to Bennett Glazer, the founder of Graphic Image. In 2009, Glazer&amp;#039;s son discovered the book and decided to re-issue an exact reproduction, complete with Rafaello Bussoni&amp;#039;s woodcut illustrations. This recreation of the 1943 book is now available in both a paper and leather-bound version with an introduction by the author&amp;#039;s daughter. What better Christmas gift?  The Greatest Gift, $25 for paperback, $55 for leather-bound; graphicimage.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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