The first Sears Christmas Book, in 1933, was a modest 87 pages. It offered fruitcakes and Mickey Mouse watches and live canaries. By 1968, the catalog had ballooned to 608 pages, and sold quilted r… ...

It is the iconic Sears, Roebuck Christmas Book (eventually renamed the Christmas Wish Book) that was printed from 1933 to 2011 and once again in 2017. As many embrace the Christmas spirit, my ...

Sears sold the first artificial Christmas trees for $0.50 and $1.00 in the late 1800s ... In 1968, the name of the catalog officially changed to the "Wish Book," per the source. ...

Meanwhile, the version of the 1956 Christmas book available on the Internet Archive features an address of 2465 Utah Ave., Seattle, Washington — a former location for Sears' mail-order operations.

Context. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in ...