Dickens' Christmas Carol was first published in 1843. The Arion edition marks its 150th anniversary and honors this perennial favorite with a treatment that is traditional and contemporary by turns. Paul Davis is Professor of English Literature at the University of New Mexico and an authority on Charles Dickens. His introduction traces the history of illustrated editions of the Carol. The artist Ida Applebroog has achieved wide-spread recognition for her appropriated images in paintings, drawings, and prints. She pays homage to earlier illustrators of this classic while making familiar depictions of Scrooge, the ghosts, and Tiny Tim into new works of art in her own style.