[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce 1st ed. of the children's classic, "Jessica's First Prayer" London: (1867).

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE) [Smith, Sarah]. JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER. London: The Religious Tract Society.  (1867). 16mo. 92pp. plus 4 pages of ads. Frontispiece plus 5 plates, and text woodcuts. Orig. blue cloth, gilt. Spine extremities a bit rubbed. Front free endpaper with a gift inscription from 1868.           $650.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the very scarce first edition, so identified by finding the title page listing only one other title, i.e. "By the author of 'Fern's Hollow.' " Later printings have 2, 3, or 4 titles "by the author of." See a long discussion on the importance of this book in the Grolier Club's ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE #37.

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