Uncommon book: Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri, translated from the German by Louise Brooks. First American edition. Boston: Cupples, Upham & Company, 1885. Hardcover bound in pictorial gold cloth, 5.5 x 7.25, two volumes (399 pp. and 269 pp.) as one, plus 20-page publisher's catalog (dated October 1884) in rear. Book condition: G+/None, with cracked hinges, edgewear, bumped corners, pencil inscription to endpaper, and some staining to boards. One of the most famous works of Swiss literature, Heidi may be best remembered in America for the 1937 film adaptation starring Shirley Temple.
