The Water Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
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.'
First Edition Identification and Notes
First edition (London Macmillan and Company 1863) is usually without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. Illustrations in this edition include two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials.
Other Collectible or Notable Editions
Hodder and Stoughton's edition of 1916 with twelve gorgeous color plates and green and white text illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith is considered one of the best editions. Other notable illustrators are: Linley Sambourne who provided 100 illustrations to the edition of 1885, Warwick Goble who produced thirty-two tipped-in color plates for the 1909 edition, and W. Heath Robinson rendered eight color plates and miscellaneous black and white text illustrations to Constable & Company's edition in 1915.
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1863
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London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1863. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. First issue with "L'Envoy" leaf present. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, brown coated endsheets. Good. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends, with frayed started at the rear joint. Cloth lightly rubbed, with front cover mottled. Front and rear… Read more
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (The Deluxe Issue -- in Full Vellum)
by Charles Kingsley
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- 1909
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1909. Vellum. Very Good. Warwick Goble. The 1909 deluxe edition, limited to 260 unnumbered copies printed on large paper and bound in full vellum. 32 mounted, full-page color plates by Warwick Goble (all with their accompanying captioned tissue-guards) beautrifully complementing Kingsley's text. Handsome and very presentable in its gilt-decorated and titled front panel and… Read more
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The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Babies
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London & Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. J. Noel Paton. 2nd Printing 1 Copyright date is 1863. First edition, second state without the L'envoi leaf. Publisher's dark green cloth with central embossed gilt ornament to front cover and framed in triple gilt filets, spine lettered… Read more
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The Water-Babies
by KINGSLEY, Charles
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1916. hardcover. near fine. Smith, Jessie Willcox.. Color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and many other illustrations throughout by Jessie Willcox Smith. 362pp. Large 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/4 dark green morocco. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1916). A near fine copy.<br/><br/>
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The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by the Rev. Charles Kingsley ; with two illustrations by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A.
by Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)
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London ; Cambridge : Macmillan and Co., 1863. First Edition. Hardback. This copy is from the rare first issue of the first edition. It contains a leaf bearing a poem, L'Envoi [following the dedication page]. Kingsley had second thoughts about this while the book was being printed, and he had the leaf removed, but not before a few hundred… Read more
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Water-Babies
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London: McMillan Company, 1864. 2nd Edition.. leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. J. Noel Paton. Copyright is 1864, second edition stated on the title page. One year after the first edition, first printing. Illustrations by J. Noel Paton. Shelf wear to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine are moderate. All page edges are… Read more
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The Water Babies
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916. First Thus. Cloth. Very good. Jessie Willcox Smith. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and past-down illustration on front cover. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Half title page has signature of illustrator below a pasted 2" x 3" picture of her. This book was Smith's favorite of those she illustrated.… Read more
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THE WATER-BABIES
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Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1909. 1st thus edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Goble, Warwick. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 32 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, mounted on brown card with tissue guards. All edges gilt. Goble's most desired work. Spine is browned. Covers are unevenly faded. Bumping and wear… Read more
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The Water-Babies
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916. 1st edition Thus.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Smith, Jessie Willcox. Copyright date 1916, 1st thus edition. Original green clothover boards with circular pictorial label on front. Light wear to cloth, front hinge cracked, previous owner's name on endpaper a scratch on the lower front cover; very good. One of the… Read more
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Water Babies
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London: Macmillan, 1909. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Goble, Warwick. 4to, full green cloth with attractive pictorial gilt decoration of a baby riding a fish. 274pp. 32 lovely tissue-guarded color plates mounted on dark brown card stock by Warwick Goble. All edges gilt, light foxing to endpapers, corner torn off one tissue, cover gilt slightly faded and wear… Read more
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
by Kingsley, Charles.
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Macmillan, London: 1910. First printing thus. Faint wear, still near fine to fine and bright in custom mylar cover. Sixteen full page color plates by Warwick Goble. Full deep blue crushed morocco handsomely gilt in gilt and blind.
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THE WATER BABIES.; Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith
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Hodder & Stoughton,London, [1919]. 4to.pp1x +240,with 12 tipped in colour plates each with a titled tissue guard.. Bound in half tan calf with marbled boards and raised bands.
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The Water-Babies
by KINGSLEY, Charles
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- 1915
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Constable and Company Ltd, 1915. 1st Thus. Hardcover. VG+/G. ROBINSON, W Heath. 1st thus illustrated by Heath Robinson. 4to., 22 x 17pp green cloth with gilt stamped titles and image to the front and spine. Top edge green x, 319pp, 8 full page colour plates including tissue guarded frontispiece and 95 black and white images. Very… Read more
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Water Babies
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1920. KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water Babies. Original gilt-pictorial cloth, T.e.g., non-priceclipped dust jacket. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [1920]. First edition illustrated by Alfred E. Jackson. Ends of d/j spine panel chipped, foot of front panel crumpled and torn, else very good.
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THE WATER-BABIES
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New York: Dodd & Mead Co., 1916. Book. Illus. by Jessie Willcox Smith. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition American... 1st. Edition , ( USA ) Green cloth with gilt letters at the spine and front board with round illustrated paste down ( baby laying in water ) see image . With eleven color tipped in full page plates and black… Read more
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The Water-Babies; A Fairy-Tale for a Land-Baby
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London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1910. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Warwick Goble. 1st Printing 1 Copyright date 1910, illustrated edition, Pictorial gilt cloth, t.e.g., 16 color plate illustrations by Goble, inclusive of frontis. (tissue detached). 8vo. Soiling and fraying to sunned spine, somewhat shaken, otherwise good.
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The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles; illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition with the charming illustrations by famed illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith. There are eleven full page color illustrations and numerous text illustrations as well. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. A circular color plate is moubnted on the front cover.… Read more
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The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1916
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Former owner's bookplate, else a nearly fine copy. 1916. 1st. hardcover. Small 4to, 362 pp., Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and circular mounted illustration on the front board, With 12 color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith and numerous text illustrations printed in green and black .
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The Water Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
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- nd
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, nd. First UK edition with Smith Illustrations. 12 tipped in colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. 305pp. 4to. Publisher's orange cloth. . almost fine, minor foxing. First UK edition with Smith Illustrations. 12 tipped in colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. 305pp. 4to.
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The Water-Babies (1916)
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1916
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Dodd, Mead & Company. Fine. 1916. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in pictorial gilt-stamped bright green cloth with a circular Wilcox Smith color illustration inset on the front cover. Gilt titles to spine. The always charming Wilcox Smith's color illustrations throughout. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners.… Read more
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The Water-Babies : A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by KINGSLEY, Charles
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- 1915
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London: Constable & Company Limited 1915. Small 4to. x, 320 pp. Variant binding. Green cloth with decorative design & lettering to front board & spine in black. Spine & edge of rear board darkened, not affecting lettering. Slight chipping to head & tail of spine with short tears at joints. Cloth slightly marked. Bubbling to boards. Heavy foxing to prelims… Read more
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The Water Babies
by KINGSLEY, CHARLES
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- 1916
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Jessie Willcox Smith. 4to. 362pp. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine and front board, with circular image to front board. A few light scuffs and light rubbing to corners and at head and heel of spine. Illustrated throughout, text clean and bright. A good clean copy.… Read more
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The Water-Babies
by Charles Kingsley
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- 1915
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Raphael Tuck, 1915. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Mabel Lucie Atwell. Raphael Tuck, 1915. First Edition. Date not stated, no additional printings. Pictorial boards with red cloth spine, black titles. Colored frontispiece and 11 additional full-page color illustrations. Eight pages of advertisements for Raphael House Library follows text. All illustrations are in pristine condition. Cover has moderate… Read more
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The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
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- 1929
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Boots The Chemists, 1929. Book. Illus. by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy In Decorative Green Cloth First Edition Gorgeous Copy Without Wear. Lavishly Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith Rare In this Condition..
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The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Beautiful full-leather binding with illustrations by Linley Sambourne.
by Kingsley, Charles
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London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1910. Warwick Goble. This is a 1910 reprint (first published 1863). Hardback. 330pp. Full leather binding with crest of Bristol Cathedral School to upper board. Five panels to spine with gilt decoration. Gilt dentelles around the edges of the boards. All edges marbled to correspond to marbled endpapers. One hundred illustrations by Linley… Read more
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THE WATER BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd., 1924. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Anderson, Anne. Very good condition with no wrapper. Large format (10 x 7.5"). Cream cloth with brown titles and pictorial onlay to front cover. Blue illustration to endpapers. 12 colour plates. 180 pages. Boards slightly grubby. Endpapers browned with a few minor marks. Scattered foxing… Read more
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WATER BABIES: A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY, THE.
by KINGSLEY, CHARLES.
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Very good/Lacks jacket. (1915). First US edition.. Cloth with color paste-on. . 319, 1 pgs Light cap crushing with small scrape and stain on rear, owner bookplate. .
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The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles (Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith)
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- 1916
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Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1916. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with a color illustrated front board pastedown (of water-baby on red buoy), gilt titles and credits front and spine. Pages edges darkened, spot to bottom edges. Gilt present but faded, most notably at foot of spine. Text… Read more
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THE WATER BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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Published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Smith, Jessie Willcox. Very good condition with no wrapper. Modern three-quarter dark green leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration on spine; marbled boards. 12 colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith plus two-colour text illustrations. 362 pages Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Wear to edges of preliminary… Read more
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The Water Babies; A fairy story for a land baby
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1930
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good-. Ethel F. Everett. Green cloth with illustration edged in gilt paste down on front and gilt lettering on spine. Darkening to some of page edges. Illustrated by Ethel F. Everett. Illustrated frontispiece plus 7 other color plates. Dj has color illustrations on front, spine, and back.… Read more
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The water-babies: A fairy tale for a land-baby
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T.O.H.P. Burnham. Collectible - Acceptable. Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1864. 1st U.S. edition, with "L'ENVOI" opposite Chapter 1. 12mo. 310pp. Illus. by J. Noel Paton. Fair book. Spine cover missing. Both boards detached and edgeworn; corners frayed. Title from spine cloth laid in. Inquire if you need further information.
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The Water-Babies
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London/Philadelphia: Raphael Tuck & Sons/David McKay Co, no date. Hard Cover. very good. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. 144pp including ads for upcoming published books in rear of book. Twelve full page delightful color illustrations and many others in black and white by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Binding tight. … Read more
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The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
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- 1919
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London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1919. First Thus . Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 11" x 8.5. Jessie Wilcox Smith. [6], ix + 240pp + [12 plates], [2].12 plates complete. Some repair to outer hinge. Book is bound in green-blue cloth with gold titles and illustrations to front board and spine. Binding is in good, clean condition, with some light… Read more
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The Water Babies
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London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots ix, [1],240pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ chipped to spine ends, corners and edges with small amounts of loss, lightly water stained. Covers lightly foxed to spine, gilt quite bright and clean, light foxing and browning to page edges, text and plates quite bright and clean. Previous owners gift inscription to ffep. With twelve… Read more
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The Water-Babies - a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby
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London: Constable, 1915. Soine a little bumped and rubbed with text and dec. moderately faded, gutters slightly weak. Light foxing an dbrowning to endpapers and tissue guard. Pages and boards bright and clean. Appears to have been inexpertly reattached at gutters which is causing pages r-fep to stick to pd.. 1st. Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Heath Robinson, W..… Read more
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THE WATER BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1924
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Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd., 1924. 1st thus edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Anderson, Anne. Good condition with no wrapper. Large format (10 x 7.5"). Cream cloth with brown titles and pictorial onlay to front cover. Blue illustration to endpapers. 12 colour plates. 180 pages. Spine bumped and worn with some browning, small splits to cloth… Read more
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The Water-Babies
by KINGSLEY, Charles
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- 1916
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NY:: Dodd, Mead & Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1916. Hardcover. Black and white illustrations throughout. An early reprint edition. Very light offsetting to endpapers from the dust jacket flaps, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. ; 270 pages .
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The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1916
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Very Good. Smith, Jessie Wilcox. 1st ptg., 4to full green cloth with gilt titling and round color cover plate inset and 12 full color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith plus many 2-color partial page drawings and chapter heads. One plate loose, front hinge cracked, rubbing to spine letter and… Read more
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The Water Babies
by KINGSLEY, Charles
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- 1982
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. Reprint. Leather bound. Fine. Jessie Willcox SMITH. Reprint. 8vo; x, 240pp; gilt-stamped green grained leather, undersea pictorial to front board; 3 raised band spine; all edges gilt; silk ribbon bookmark; green moiré linings; 12 color tipped in plates with tissue guards; line illustrations printed in green throughout text; fine. First published by Hodder… Read more
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Waterbabies
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1988
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- Corrected Reprint
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Memphis, TN: White Rose Press. 200pp. Typical library marks. No wear. M10 . Very Good. Hardcover. Corrected Reprint. 1988.
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THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby
by Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Linley Sambourne
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- 1928
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- Very Good
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- Children's edition
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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… Read more
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THE WATER-BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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- 1916
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- 1st Edition
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916. 362 pages in good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with illustrations and colour plates throughout. 2 plates missing (10 of 12 plates). Frontispiece is present but detached from the binding. Page edges are darkened and smudged. Inner hinges are intact, but loose and worn. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles and… Read more
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The Water-Babies (Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith) (1916)
by Charles Kingsley
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- Lake Country Books and More
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- 1916-01-01
- Condition
- Very Good -
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$142.48
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Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good -/None as issued. Solid copy, 1st edition thus. No writing or marks to text; foxing on fore edge side of closed page edges. Includes 12 full-color plates, tipped in on gray base pages. Green cloth cover with circular color paste down of two water babies playing in a foamy wave.… Read more
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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. The Favorite Library Series
by Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated By Linley Sambourne
- Seller
- Resource Books, LLC
- Published
- 1900
- Condition
- Very Good
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$137.99
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Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1900. Undated, ca. 1900. Lovely edition of this children's classic with four memorable color plates by Linley Sambourne accompanied by dozens of other illustrations in black and white. Pictorial tan cloth printed in color, no dustjacket, likely as issued, 6.75 inches tall. Modest cover wear, mainly some light ribbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound… Read more
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THE WATER BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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- Stella & Rose's Books
- Published
- 1930
- Condition
- Good
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$142.53
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Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Hardback. Good/Good. Illustrated by Smith, Jessie Willcox. Almost very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. 12 enchanting tipped-in colour plates. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. 240 pages. Large format. Published for Boots the Chemist. Spine bumped and worn with small hole towards top. Minimal bumping and wear to corners.… Read more
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The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Charles Kingsley
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- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
- Published
- 1889
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Edition
- Early Edition
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$135.66
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MacMillan, 1889. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Linley Sambourne. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 330 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Front board is loose. Heavy foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Marbled edges, browned. Illustrator:… Read more
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The Water Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
- Seller
- Keogh's Books
- Published
- , 1920
- Condition
- , sunned at spine, covers clean, previous owner's inscription on half title page, frontispiece and half title page a little loos
- Edition
- First Edition illustrated by Jackson
- Item Price
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$129.57
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, 252 pages, complete with 16 colour plates
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THE WATER-BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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- Stella & Rose's Books
- Published
- 1915
- Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st edition.
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$129.57
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Published by Constable & Co. Ltd., 1915. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Robinson, W. Heath. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Green cloth, gilt titles & vignettes. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. All plates present. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Gilt faded from spine. A few… Read more
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THE WATER-BABIES
by Kingsley, Charles
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- Stella & Rose's Books
- Published
- 1915
- Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st edition.
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$129.57
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Published by Constable & Co. Ltd., 1915. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Robinson, W. Heath. Good condition with no wrapper. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Green cloth, gilt titles & vignettes. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Spine and cover edges darkened. Gilt on spine is dulled. Large score… Read more
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The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
- Seller
- Books of Wonder
- Published
- 1929
- Edition
- Reprint
- Item Price
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$125.00
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KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water Babies. Illustrated in Color by A.E. Jackson. London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press [1929]. 8vo, 252pp. Gray- blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and navy; t.e.g. Pictorial endpapers; 16 color plates, pictorial title, and small b&w illustrations at chapter heads and tails. Spine sunned and rubbed at edges, corners a bit rubbed, cover slightly soiled. Some light… Read more
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