Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Green cloth, faded around the edges/VG with wraparound illustration
- Seller
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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Contents VG. 18 wonderful colour illustrations on White glossy pages. Wonderful endpapers front and back.: a colourful march of characters from the Prince Charming Colour Book Series. Inscription on half-title for Christmas 1963, but perhaps published in 1959.
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
- Stillman Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44SB
- Title
- Water-Babies
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Illustrator
- Harry G. Theaker
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth, faded around the edges
- Book Condition
- Used - Green cloth, faded around the edges
- Jacket Condition
- VG with wraparound illustration
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not a 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London, Melbourne, Cape Town
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8 vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...