Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1953, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in gray and purple, 179 pages. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. One of Richter's best known works, basis for the eponymous 1958 Walt Disney film. Clean, bright copy minus the dust jacket. Clean copy.