Lot 261
  • 261

Spyri, Johanna

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Spyri, Johanna
  • Heidi. Her Years of Wandering and Learning. A Story for Children and Those who Love Children, translated from the German ... by Louise Brooks. Boston: Cupples, Upham, & Comapny, 1885
  • paper
2 volumes in one, 8vo (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 180 x 130 mm). Two half-titles and titles, the titles printed in red and black, 20-page Cupples catalogue dated October 1884 following advertisement leaf. Publisher's gold pictorial cloth; some minor rubbing at extremities. In a perspex slipcase.

Provenance

Mildred Greenhill (bookplate) — H. Bradley Martin (his bookmark laid in, his sale in these rooms, 30 January 1990, lot 2470, unsold)

Literature

Pierpont Morgan 252

Condition

Publisher's gold pictorial cloth; some minor rubbing at extremities. In a perspex slipcase.
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Catalogue Note

First edition in English. A fine copy.