THE WATER BABIES A Fairy Tale For A Land Baby by Charles Kingsley - 1916

London; New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited; The Macmillan Company, 1904. Hardcover, limp leather, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Fair/No Dust Jacket. With 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. 330 pages. Illustrated Pocket Classics for the Young. Whole and complete but fragile, needs TLC. Top edge gilt, covers rather worn, leather edges crumbly, cracking/split. Best known for his historical romances, Kingsley was a 19th century English clergyman, novelist, and poet.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1891 PRINTING. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Covers (green boards with elaborate gilt design) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact. Book shelf-cocked. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Penguin Books , pp. 224 . Papeback. New.

J. M. Dent, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. London, illustrated cloth covered boards; mild edge wear; illustrated jacket in acceptable condition with edges and corners chipped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 284 pages.

Henry Altemus Co.,, 1899T. hardcover. Good. . Illustrated cloth cover shows minor wear, tanning, and staining/foxing. Pages are lightly tanned.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1111. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 5 colour plates + colour plate pasted to front cover. Red cloth cover w bevelled edges , worn corners and top & btm sp. . ffep missing 1 plate loose. Some b/w pictures have been coloured in.

Gilbert H. McKibben, 1900. First edition. With Sixty Illustrations. Perhaps first McKibben edition. Very good illustrated boards with clean profusely illustrated text throughout.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co.. Cream colored cloth with red lettering and red, green and black illustration. With ninety-four illustrations. Cover is wron with some fraying. Back hinge is startng to crack. 16 page book lists at back of book. . Fine. Hardcover. 1899.

Raphael Tuck & Sons,, 1111. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. This book is in fair condition. The front end paper has been partly removed and is ripped. One of the colour plates has become detached but is still present. One of the plates has been coloured in. Occasional foxing present. Otherwise a good clean copy. No date stated for publication.

Sydney: Times House. Very Good; Yellowed paper, surface wear to back cover.. 1987. Hardcover. 1862560587 . Decorative gold lettering on red hard cover and spine, no jacket. 400gms weight; Children's Classics; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages .