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2017USTOMEM00JKNScholastic 2017. Fine. Stork Francisco X. The Memory of Light. New York: Scholastic 2017. 324pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Bottom fore edge bumped. Scholastic paperback books
2009WELLER9780545056908Scholastic 2009. New. New book. Scholastic unknown books
2017WELLER9780545474337Scholastic 2017. New. New book. Scholastic unknown books
WELLER9781338312829New. New book. unknown books
19761311965Amsterdam: Paddington Press Ltd 1976. Hardcover. Small quarto; pp 240; G/G; black spine with yellow text; dust jacket has minor chipping to edges; slight rubbing to exterior; cloth shows minimal wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has soiled exterior edges; light pencil to endpapers; light ink to rear pastedown; interior clean; profusely illustrated with many photographs. 1311965. FP New Rockville Stock. Paddington Press Ltd hardcover books
WELLER9781338692150New. New book. unknown books
192096658Philadelphia: Charles Wharton Stork 1920. pp. 161-176 creased wraps. Poets include Karle Wilson Baker and Leonora Speyer prize poem. Charles Wharton Stork unknown books
192470162Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good. 1924. Hardcover. Gift Edition with 14 illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk. 264 pages tan pictorial boards with red and green stamping. The covers are slightly soiled and the hinges cracked pages 261-264 are loose but present. The contents show a very light toning at the margin- otherwise bright and complete. Good. . J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1923JC9669Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth ornately stamped in green and gilt full-color illustration mounted to upper board; 8vo; pp. 320 with vignette illustrations plus full-color frontispiece and 13 plates. Boards a little rubbed and dust-soiled; spine tips and corners lightly bumped; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Some light finger-smudging throughout but overall internally clean. A nice reading copy. <br/><br/> J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
19212262064Grosset & Dunlap 1921. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1921 photoplay edition with stills from 1920 film starring Madge Evans. Scarcer than the 1930s Shirley Temple photoplay edition. Quarter-inch chip on bottom edge of jacket front minor chip on jacket spine-head jacket edges lightly rubbed. Front board lightly rubbed page ridges very faintly foxed faint stain on page ridge. 318 pp. "Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi: How she used what she learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" as quoted from its subtitle. Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1910466961910. STORK Charles Wharton. THE QUEEN OF ORPLEDE. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1910. 16mo. grey-blue boards stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Stork on title page: "Miss Alice Downing with the cordial regards and conpliments of the author. C.W.S." Very Good gilt bright. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19201261Philadelphia: Logan P. O 1920. First Edition. Staplebound. Good. Printed by Innes and Sons Phila. Issues in toned soiled original wrappers. Poets: Stephen V. Benet; Grace Hazard Conkling; Glenn Ward Dresbach; Amanda B. Hall; Daniel Henderson; Helen U. Hoyt; Katherine W. McCluskey; Winifred Welles; Clement Wood; Dorothy Anderson; H. H. Bellamann; Amy Sherman Bridgman; Amelia Josephine Burr; Allen Crafton; Hazel Hall; Howard Mumford Jones; Haniel Long; Norreys Jephson O'Conor; Robert Haven Schauffler; Anna Spencer Twitchell; Claribel Weeks Avery; Elizabeth J. Coatsworth; Le Baron Cooke; Julie P. Dabney; Joseph Andwer Galahad; Margaret Tod Ritter; Robert J. Roe; Emmy Veronica Sanders; Nora Archibald Smith; M. Letitia Stockett and Paul Tanaquil. Logan P. O unknown books
1855281267Philadelphia: Lutheran Board of Publication Lindsay & Blakiston 1855. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. While 19th century Lutherans very much liked the idea of Luther and his family gathering around a Christmas tree see the Frontispiece illustration this is in fact an early representation of a Christmas tree in an American religious tract. "References to the use of Christmas trees in Sunday school Christmas celebrations are come upon but infrequently in the newspaper press and not before 1858 in which year trees are reported for Bristol writing in Bucks and Lancaster City" Shoemaker; Yoder. Christmas in Pennsylvania 2009; p.75 In yellow printed wrappers with soiling minor loss to the bottom corner and to the spine. 32 pp. with full page wood-engraved plates. Very Good binding. Lutheran Board of Publication | Lindsay & Blakiston unknown books
191925375New Haven: Yale University Press 1919. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm; 3/4 blue paper over yellow cloth with blue title label printed in black applied to spine; dustjacket; 159pp. Touch of dustiness to upper board edges and upper edge of text with a hint of offset to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn spine-sunned with a few small nicks and short tears; $1.35 price on front panel struck through with blue pencil; Very Good only. Scarce assemblage of poems by the Swedish winner of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature and only the second of Von Heidenstam's works to be translated into English. With an introduction by translator Charles Wharton Stork. Uncommon in dustjacket. Yale University Press unknown books
2015153676Luzern: Quaternio Verlag 2015. Text Volume Only. Slipcased. Fine/VG slipcase lightly rubbed. Rich navy cloth/boards; gilt lettering; placeholder ribbon. No dj. Housed in a matching slipcase with no lettering. with 34 mostly color illustrations. Text in German and some English. In short the contents are Clark's bit in German; Stork's bit in German; Clark's bit in English; with the illustrations in between but here is the actual breakdown of the actuals parts: The German version of Gregory T. Clark's contribution containing The History of the Manuscript; Compositional and Iconographic Sources; The Artist of the Einsiedeln Speculum; and The Place of Origin and Date of the Einsiedeln Speculum; and the descriptions of the miniatures. The lengthy text by Hans-Walter Stork follows entirely in German: Introduction and Foreword; Authorship Content Dating and Construction of the Speculum; The Heilsspiegel Healing Mirror of Kloster Einsiedeln Codex 206 and the text; The Substantive Context of the Miniatures; Annotations of the Illustrations; an abstract; bibliography; and the illustrations. All these take up the first 224 pp. The English Commentary actually the original version of Clark's contribution begins on page 225. Included are: The History of the Manuscript; Compositional and Iconographic Sources; The Artist of the Einsiedeln Speculum; and The Place of Origin and Date of the Einsiedeln Speculum; and the descriptions of the miniatures and the Codicological Descriptions in table/chart form. The reader must refer to the German section for the bibliography and illustrations. With richly-colored plates clear bw images and a beautiful presentation. Einsiedeln Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the town of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz Switzerland. - Wikipedia NOTE: This is the text volume ONLY. The facsimile volume is not included. Quaternio Verlag unknown books
