KERSTI | Rights Trail

Rights are Asserted in the following book by Hilda van Stockum through 2056 or 2076, depending on prevailing copyright law.

1. Kersti and St. Nicholas: COPYRIGHT in name of VIKING PRESS 1940. Originally published by Viking Press. Registration was made October 18, 1940. The book is described as having been published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 11, 1940. Recorded in the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress by the Commissioner of Patents, November 4, 1940.

Historical note: Hilda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam, Holland and saw her country invaded on May 10,  1940 and her home city bombed to the ground by the Nazis a few days later.

The shock of this for her and her mother Olga Boissevain van Stockum must have been agonizing.

Her book describes a little Dutch girls who persuades St. Nicholas to give presents to the naughty children as well as the good ones.

An edition of Kersti and St. Nicholas was published by Boissevain Books LLC.

For other books and articles and artwork to which rights are asserted, see
http://boissevainbooksllc.blogspot.com/2018/05/van-stockum-hilda-van-stockum-assertion.html.

2. VIKING REVERSION OF RIGHTS to Author, 1967 (Seven Books including Kersti)

3. APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE 2006 (Death of author)

4. TRANSFER OF RIGHTS TO BOISSEVAIN BOOKS UPON DEATH OF EXECUTOR