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The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Jessie Willcox Smith . Limited Edition but unnumbered. 4to, xi + pp240 complete with 12 tipped in colour illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith with tissue guards. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers binding of full maroon leather with gilt titles and underwater design to front board and spine with 3 raised bands in near fine condition. Inside all pages, plates, ribbon bookmark and marbled end papers in near fine condition. An excellent copy.
Synopsis
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, blacks, Americans, and the poor. In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000684
- Title
- The Water Babies
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children
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Nikki Green Books
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Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
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- Tipped In
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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