Lot 317
Spyri, Johanna
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Heidi's lehr - und wanderjahre; Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat. Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Berthes. 1880-1881. First editions, 8vo, 2 volumes, original bindings, the first volume in purple/brown cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt, the second in ?second issue binding of pictorial boards, rebacked preserving original backstrip, joints and edges rubbed of the first volume, some slight soiling, remains of tape marks front endpaper of first volumes, preliminary signature reinserted of the first volume
Footnote
Note: Johanna Spyri's famous books are rare in the first edition. It would appear that only three complete sets have been sold at auction in the past thirty years: in the Manney sale in New York in 1991, a set bound together in Munich in 1982 and this present set in these rooms in November 1998. Copies of the first volume only were sold in the Bradley Martin sale in 1990 and in Germany in 1995. The second volume would presumably have been issued in a similar cloth but it appears to have been issued simultaneously as volume five in a series by Perthes titled "Geschichte für Kinder ... von Jonanna Spyri" and this present copy is the binding for this series.