1919 Rare Book - HEIDI by Johanna Spyri illustrated in color by Maria L. Kirk.
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Title: HEIDI by Johanna Spyri, translated by Elisabeth P. Stork. 14 Illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk. Gift Edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919. First Gift Edition, illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9.5 " X 7 ".
Pages: 318 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original publisher Gift Edition illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, soiled and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on the blank page at the back of the frontispiece - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful 14 full-page color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk.
The book: Rare and attractive First Gift Edition, illustrated by Maria L. Kirk, of Heidi - a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps.
Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.
The author: Johanna Louise Spyri (née Heusser; German: 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
The illustrator: Maria Louise Kirk (21 June 1860 – 21 June 1938), usually credited as M. L. Kirk or Maria L. Kirk, was an American painter and illustrator of more than fifty books, most of them for children.
Her notable work includes illustrations for a US edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1904, for the first edition of The Secret Garden, and for several books by L. M. Montgomery and Johanna Spyri.