Early edition of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The cover is made of a cream colored fabric which may have been white and yellowed with age. The illustration on the cover is one looking at a lit fireplace. Above the mantle is the title and author's name. On the mantle is a box with a handle, a clock, a hat, and a stack of books held together by a strap. In front of the fireplace is a boy in a tie, sitting and reading at a desk. Next to him is a dog with a ball next to it. On the spine is another illustration, with the title and author's name depicted in a frame, below it is a picture of a person playing football. Below that is what is likely a desk with a lamp on it but the desk is covered by a strip of striped paper with the words "GCW" on it for Gustine Courson Weaver. At the bottom is the name of the publisher. Attached to the inside of the cover is Gustine Courson Weaver's bookplate. The illustration on the bookplate depicts the inside of a library or study with doors open to the outside. In the room is a rug with a chair with a woman sitting in it, looking out through the open doors. On either side of the doors are a set of shelves, one with books and the other with dolls. Outside is a path leading to a building, flanked by grass and other plants. Walking down the path towards the room is a man. At the bottom of the book plate is a banner reading "Ex Libris Gustine Courson Weaver Mrs. Clifford Weaver". Surrounding the edges of the bookplate are leafy vines. The join of the cover to the internal pages is split revealing the cloth lining the spine of the book. The pages are also yellowed with age unlike the bookplate which is still white in color. The illustration on these pages show two children, a boy and a girl, sitting off to the side of a road as a parade of book characters, including: the Mad Hatter, Alice, and the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, a Roman soldier, a witch with a black cat, and others. Above the characters' heads is a block of text boxed in by a frame. The text is a poem that reads, "Give us some more of the stories. Telling of warriors bold, And beautiful girls With wayward curls, And dukes and barons And kings and earls, Out of the days of old."
