About this title: SPARK OF LIFE509 is a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. For ten years, he has persevered in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation--or force their own--then their ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The "Spark of Life" still remains for those few who survived the labor camps of WW II. Translated from the German by James Stern. 365 pp. Pages are clean and binding is tight. The major flaw I see is some scuffing of head & tail of spine & bottom edge. Also a scuff across the spine. Good reading copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Date Published: 1952
Description: Fair in Poor jacket. Fair in Poor jacket Fair in Poor jacket Jacket has large missing in ever part and binding loose and price clipped. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Hardcover former library book in good condition, cover wear. Text in English, German. 365 p. 22 cm. Translation of der Funke Leben. read more
Description: Good. Dj very very very severely chipped/nicked/edgeworn/shelfworn/yellow etc. with 4-inch closed tear along back foredge from bottom. Book has spine damage. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1953
Description: VG Used, Very Good in Good jacket. PAPERBACK, VG/Good, Signet, 1953, 7.2 oz. This copy has visible but minimal creasing of the spine, is in otherwise Very Good condition. Special Notes on this book: chip and tear along spine bottom Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Description: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c. 1952. First printing. HARDCOVER.; Blue-gray boards. Translated from the German by James Stern. Ex-library: trimmed DJ flaps pasted to front endpapers, pocket on rear endpaper, stamp on title page. Heavily worn along lower part of rear edge of spine, small sticker pull on spine, slight wear to corners. Tight. Clean. No DJ. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1953
Description: Fair. SPARK OF LIFE by Erich Maria Remarque. Signet, 1953. Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dust Jacket: No jacket. NOTES: Stated first printing. Showing exterior wear/creasing, a reading copy; contents are overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Signet #S1023. read more
Edition: 1st U.K. Edition.
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Hutchinson & Company, London
Date Published: 1952
Description: 8vo (about 8 inches tall) 367 pages. black cloth with red rext and decoration, top edge red; the book has a ghost of a label on the front facing endpaper, and the first ten pages of the text have a few small stains near the fore-edge of the text, the spine is slanted, otherwise a Very Good-book; the dust jacket is Poor; jacket has a piece about two inches square missing from the upper spine, and is drastically price clipped. read more
Description: Appleton Century Crofts, c1952, later printing, hardcover, ; Clean and solid, VERY GOOD, in a GOOD+ dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hutchinson's Universal Book Club, London
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good in Good jacket. * Good in Good jacket Duodecimo-190mm(71/2"). Hard Cover, in good general condition, with a near good dust jacket. Solid, tight copy with lightly yellowed pages, some foxing and some stains on edges. Dust jacket is creased with some edgewear, a few chips on edges & small tear on the bottom of rear flap. Translated from the German by James Stern. Questions answered, further details or digital images supplied, usually within several hours. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1998-01-27
ISBN-13:9780449912515ISBN:0449912515
Description: Very Good. Unmarked. Binding tight and square. Pages clan. Minor edge wear to covers. We pack carefully and ship daily, with delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York
Date Published: [1952]
Description: Good in Very Good dust jacket. Ex-Library. great condition for an ex-lib book--unclipped dustcover has been well protected by library's mylar cover. Unknown printing. [English, German]. 365 p. 22 cm. Translation of der Funke Leben. 1st edition, 3rd print read more
Description: Trans. by James Stern. Appleton-Century-Crofts NY c.1952 1st. 8vo. cloth, 365pp. novel re concentration camp. neat owner's name, price intact, VG in edgechipped dj, $ read more
"It might have been because this was the third in a line of Remarque novels I devoured, but this one didn't seem as captivating as Night in Lisbon or Shadows in Paradise. That's not to say it was not a good book, but I didn't get the same enjoyment from it that I have his other novels."
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