Description
No dust jacket. Very Good binding is tan cloth over boards, color pictorial paste-on, dark green and red flower border around paste-on. Boards show toning, edge-wear, small wear at head of spine. Top edge gilt, Illustrated end papers, small tear near the top of front hinge. Fourteen color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk plus numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Stated Gift Edition. The book measures 9.5″ tall x 7.4″ wide.
Gift Edition (from the book)
GIFT EDITION: Handsome cloth binding with flower decorations in two colors, and a three-color inset: lining papers, page decorations, and fourteen illustrations color by Maria L. Kirk. Large clear type has been used on soft-toned opaque paper. Octavo. Size 7 44 x 9 12
Gilt top. $3.00
About the author (from Wikipedia)
Johanna Spyri (Swiss Standard German: [joˈhana ˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser [ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children’s stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
About the illustrator (from Wikipedia)
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.
