1958 edition; illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith; hardbound; Charles Scribner's Sons publishers, New York; very good (almost as-new) condition with unmarked, clean pages; no dust jacket.
 
Description -
Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi : How she used what she learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children".
 
Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.