I'm looking for a book containing a collection of Christmas Stories.?

http://www.amazon.com/

I can only find these stories at this source, safe link above, separately, and the old version (but only from 1980) of...

..."The Christmas Spider" is included in a book along with this subtitle: "A Puppet Play from Poland and Other ...Games, Crafts and Activities" by Loretta with drawings by Holz and Mikolayack.

There are other "The Christmas Spider"-s, such as another that I couldn't look through by Naomi G. Martinez-Goldstein (it's newer), and a similar...

..."How the Spider Saved Christmas" by Robert Kraus (from 1970).

The book I looked through most thoroughly is the collection by Hans Christian Andersen, since you know he wrote "The Little Matchstick Girl" - at Amazon there's a collection of his work called...

..."Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories" with a forward by Virginia Haviland and also authored by E. C. Haugaard and Erik Christian (whom I assume are translators).

There are also books about Christmas traditions around the world that came up under the spider title, such as...

..."The Legend of the Christmas Spider: A Wondrous Tale (A Magical Tale from Finland) by Nancy Valois -translated by H.P. Paull (but from '01, at least that edition) and...

..."Christmas Customs from Around the World" by Wernecke, '59.

ADD: I wouldn't consider many of these "quite old." [I guess I am though.] End ADD

Suggest you do next these things (if you first check out Amazon):

Call the main branch of your public library and ask the reference librarian about it.

Call (or go online and search) Borders and Barnes and Noble about it...

...though if it were me, I'd put my money on the reference librarian, who has more search tools and much more schooling regarding such questions.

http://www.borders.com/ and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/