The Lord's Prayer, Protestant version.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co.,1938/1934 from title page date, early printing; red cloth backed gold illustrated paper boards with praying girl in red on front, boy on back; aqua and brown illustrated endpapers, a verse of the prayer faces a b/w litho illustration and the next spread a full colour litho illustrating the modern sense of the verse with gilt borders; 9x12.5"; np. Picture book hardback.
Lovely detailed lithos of child life and the meaning of the prayer in the 30's.
CONDITION: Very Good in Good Minus jacket; name on "To" space on fixed endpaper, edges rubbed to white, and corners rubbed to card, boards have light but unattractive soil on the back affecting illustration, straight, tight, with bright pages; in clean jacket with crumbled edges for about a half inch with occasional chips, 2" rubbed tear on front affecting title, a couple of smaller closed tears, spine badly rubbed and cracked, almost illegible, rubbed creases, small neat gift inscription on front flap "Your picture on the front"; unclipped 1.75. Item #21110
$28