Buy this book on-line Porter, Rose : The Winter Fire. A Sequel to "Summer Drift-Wood."Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, New York, 1874
Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Gilt decoration on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Impressed floral decorations on front and back covers. 5" x 7." 231 pages, complete. One black and white illustration on title page, complete. Three additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. A small slip is laid in advertising other books as well. Former ownership inscription on front pastedown in purple ink: "Mrs. Edward Taylor, Binghamton [...], 1875." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Seemingly unread. A Fine copy. A sequel to Summer Drift-Wood that continues with the writings and thoughts of a young woman named Annie. This book is very similar to Rose Porter's other novels which often have a meditative, sentimental tone and a Christian perspective. Summer Drift-Wood was Porter's first commercial success. Excerpt from the first two pages: "Yesterday, Christmas morning, grandpapa called me to him, and forgetting that I am no longer a child (for grandpapa always is forgetting how old I am, twenty-five my last birthday, old as an old woman it seems to me): 'Child,' he said, 'I want you to bring me, next Christmas, if I am here on earth, or if I have gone Home I want you to complete it just the same, some record of what the last six years have been to you, something like that summer-time diary we called your 'Summer Drift-wood;' for I want to know why the drift-wood has not been consumed during these six years--why it is still burning with warmth enough to make so cheery a winter fire as your life is to your grandpapa, and all who love you. What is the secret of it, Annie child?' Grandpapa knows the secret,--he knows, too, when I came to the last page of that brief diary, I said, I never would keep another.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Porter, Rose : The Winter Fire. A Sequel to "Summer Drift-Wood.". Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, out-of-print books, rare books, livres rares and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |