Betsy Buttons

Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1947. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good. [28pp]. Slim quarto [26 cm] White, red and blue pictorial paper over boards, with two buttons representing Betsy's eyes on the front board. Blue and white endpapers illustrating "The Route of the Pioneers." The paper of the spine is a bit torn, with the most prominent tearing at the foot. Illustrated by the author. The story of a little girl named Liza Jane and a rag doll named Betsy Buttons, and their trip across the sea to America, and into the Great Salt Lake Valley. Along the way they encounter Indians, bison and other pioneers.