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THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby
by Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Linley Sambourne
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Children's edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Linley Sambourne. 1st "Children's Edition", 1928. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 280 pp., with both full color and black & white illustrations by Samborne. Bound in publishers green decorated cloth with white dust jacket featuring an ocean vignette on front cover. Dust jacket is toned and soiled, with edges, tips and spine chipped. Top 1" of spine is missing, price clipped. Cloth covers are good with spine faded, front hinge starting, attractive bookplate of previous owner on blank end page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. SCARCE version of this dust jacket featuring this image. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.
The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favor in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics and Americans. - Wiki.
The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favor in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics and Americans. - Wiki.
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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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27578
- Title
- THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Linley Sambourne
- Illustrator
- Linley Sambourne
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Children's edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
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