The High World
- New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth, illustrated endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [10],113pp.; four color plates, two of them double-paged, as well as half-tone text illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins with brief spots of old tape repair to verso, margins a bit toned, else a Very Good copy in the uncommon dust jacket.
Lovely children's book set in the author's childhood home in the Austrian Tyrollean mountains. Much like his work "Madeline's Rescue," which had just been awarded the Caldecott Medal the same year, this story revolves around a rescue of a young skier who gets trapped in an avalanche. According to the rear jacket blurb the story is true "as told to Mr. Bemelmans by an officer of the Tyrolean [sic] Gendarmerie who took part in the rescue.
Lovely children's book set in the author's childhood home in the Austrian Tyrollean mountains. Much like his work "Madeline's Rescue," which had just been awarded the Caldecott Medal the same year, this story revolves around a rescue of a young skier who gets trapped in an avalanche. According to the rear jacket blurb the story is true "as told to Mr. Bemelmans by an officer of the Tyrolean [sic] Gendarmerie who took part in the rescue.