What Sami Sings with the Birds
by Spyri, Johanna
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1917. First Edition. Very good. First English edition; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 9-90, [8]; blue cloth over boards, illustrated with an intricate wreath in blue, yellow, and black (unsigned, but attributed to Margaret Neilson Armstrong); pictorial DJ; illustrated with three color plates, including the frontispiece; cloth with light wear to tips of spine and corners, else bright and clean; age-toning to endpapers and several minor spots to first few pages; small, ornate, unused bookplate to front board verso; very good to near fine condition. Dust jacket with tiny nicks to edges and small loss of paper to tips of spine and corners - in good to very good condition.By the author of beloved "Heidi," "What Sami Sings..." told the story of a young, orphaned boy, who loved nature and the songs of the birds. First published in German in 1887, it was not translated into English until 1917, by Helen B. Dole, and it has been especially difficult to obtain in the original dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- ZH BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002651
- Title
- What Sami Sings with the Birds
- Author
- Spyri, Johanna
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Y Crowell Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children, Classics
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