PRAYER FOR A CHILD by Field, Rachel; Jones, Elizabeth Orton (illus) - 1944: Pictures by Elizabeth Orton Jones.

New York: Macmillan, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Brief (non-authorial) gift presentation front flyleaf, else the book itself is near-fine in a jacket that has small tears at folds and nicking with slight loss at some of them and at the spine ends, and the jacket price has been removed by cutting out a triangular wedge in the the front flap of the jacket. Withall, a very attractive copy of this Caldecott Medal winner.. Elizabeth Orton Jones. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Elizabeth Orton Jones on the title-page. First edition, first printing, with "Copyright 1944 by the Macmillan Company, and, below, "Copyright 1941 by the Macmillan Company" (the text of the poem had been copyrighted before this edition appeared) - on the copyright page. A touching and not unduly pious Christian prayer for children, with endearing illustrations. Jones won a Caldecott Medal in 1945 for this book. 8vo tan cloth, ca. Very uncommon signed. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.