Prayer for a Child
by Rachel Field
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good-
- Seller
-
Camden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. 1st Ed. hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Elizabeth Orton Jones. 8vo, 1944 First Edition, hardcover with dust jacket, DJ has small tears and tanned edges, page edges tanned, book is tight and clean, 1944 date on title page and copyright page, $1.50 price on DJ
Synopsis
Prayer for a Child is a 1944 book by Rachel Field. Its artwork by Elizabeth Orton Jones won it a Caldecott Medal in 1945. The whole book is narrated by a little girl, but it represents children as a whole. It reflects their love of God, and their gentleness to humankind as a whole.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19636
- Title
- Prayer for a Child
- Author
- Rachel Field
- Illustrator
- Elizabeth Orton Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2004
Camden, Maine
About Stone Soup Books
Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.
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