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Title
The night before Christmas = Die Nacht vor der Grischtdaag
Author
Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863, attributed name.
Publisher:
Edition Tintenfass ;
Pub date:
©2005.
Pages:
18 unnumbered pages :
ISBN:
3937467149
Item info:
1 copy available at Manuscripts and Special Collections.
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The night before Christmas = Die Nacht vor der Grischtdaag
Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863, attributed name.
Control number:
ocm63200366
ISBN:
3937467149
ISBN:
9783937467146
Local control number:
(OCoLC)63200366
Call number:
811.2 M821 215-845
Author:
Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863, attributed name.
Uniform title:
Night before Christmas. Pennsylvania German & English
Title:
The night before Christmas = Die Nacht vor der Grischtdaag / translated by Thomas C. Zimmerman and Solomon Delong ; edited by Walter Sauer ; [illustrated by Thos. Nast].
Variant title:
Nacht vor der Grischtdaag
Variant title:
Title on page [3]: Visit from St. Nicholas
Imprint:
Neckarsteinach, Germany : Edition Tintenfass ; Kinzers, PA : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by the Family Album, ©2005.
Physical description:
18 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Content Type:
text
Note:
"Until recently, it was believed that Clement Clarke Moore ... wrote [this] in 1822 for his children. Modern research, however, has revealed that this ascription is more than doubtful and that we may owe it to a certain Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748-1828) of Poughkeepsie, New York ..."--Page [18].
Note:
Pages [4]-[15] translated by Thomas C. Zimmerman and shows Pennsylvania Dutch [i.e., Pennsylvania Deutsch or Pennsylvania German] and English parallel on each page; originally "appeared in 1896 in the Lebanon semi-weekly news, and was reprinted with small changes in 1903 in the Proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 12"--Page [18].
Note:
Pages [16]-[17] translated by Solomon Delong and shows only Pennsylvania Dutch text; originally appeared "on December 24, 1920 in the Allentown morning call."--Page [18].
Language note:
"Pennsylvania Dutch & English."
Held by:
MSC
Subject:
Santa Claus Juvenile poetry.
Subject:
Christmas--Juvenile poetry.
Subject:
Children's poetry, American.
Added entry:
Sauer, Walter, 1942-
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Livingston, Henry, 1748-1828, attributed name.
Added entry:
Zimmerman, Thomas C. (Thomas Cadwallader), 1838-1914, translator.
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Delong, Solomon, 1849-1925, translator.
Added entry:
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, illustrator.
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