8½” x 5¼”.For those of a certain age, living in the UK in the very early 1980s, what I am about to tell you may spark a memory or two. Pale Green boards with Dark Green titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned, more heavily to the top edge. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a little loss at the spine ends and corners. It was an immediate success, and is still one of the worlds most popular childrens stories. Money was needed urgently, so Johanna Spyri published Heidi. She wrote Heidi in 1880, at a time when Switzerland, always the country of refuge, was succouring the wounded and homeless from the Franco-Prussian War. Just as Heidi did, little Johanna loved the beautiful scenery amidst which she grew up, and she, too, would often stop to listen to the roaring of the wind in the fir trees. She was born at Hirzel, near Zurich, in a wonderfully beautiful district Lake Zurich and dark fir forests on one side, on the other, the shimmering Bernese Oberland. It all seems so real and true! because Johanna Spyri was writing about a life she knew and loved. She is a lively, carefree little creature, and in her innocent approach to lifes problems there is a child-like wisdom which brings true happiness, not only to herself, but also to many unhappy grown-up people around her.Ĭhildren still enjoy reading about the Aim-Uncle, Peter the goat-herd, the old, blind grandmother, Clara and the people from Frankfurt, just as generations of children before them have done. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates Black & White Drawings Illustrated endpapers and blanks įrom the cover: For many, many years now, children have read Heidi and have loved this simple, sweet story of a little girl who lived high up on the Swiss Alps. Heidi by Johanna Spyri lands on the shelves of my shop.
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