The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley - 1979-05-02

New York: Mayflower Books, 1979. Facsimile Reprint. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Facsimile Reprint, First Printing; orig. pub. 1928. Hard cover 8vo in in green cloth w/black spine titles, red dec, red topstain, red bookmark bound-in. Fine book in Near Fine unclipped scuffed DJ, now in clear protective cover. 280pp, illustrated in b/w drawings and color plates on glossy paper and color endpapers by Linley Sambourne.

New York: Mayflower, 1979. Facsimile Edition. . Hard Cover, NOT a remainder!. FINE,/In VERY GOOD DJ. Spine has closed tear near top and is lightly sunned. Bit of corner wear on DJ.

Mayflower. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 0831793503 . Facsimile of the 1928 Children's edition, beautiful color plates, b/w illustrations & red silk ribbon page marker. Water wrinkled DJ is now protected in a mylar jacketprotector. Red topped page edges had a wet spot that ran Color but does not aversely affect pages. Far better than it sounds - a delightful copy! .

Cleveland/New York: World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1937. Facsimile Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Lovely edition from 1937 of a book orig. published in 1863, in this special series of Children's Classics issued by World Syndicate. In 268 pages, with a few pen-and-ink illustrations from the original throughout (artist unattributed), though they look amazingly like Tenniel). This edition retains Matthew Arnold's poem, "The Forsaken Merman" at the end, which was removed from later editions. With deep blue cloth-covered boards & black lettering to front & spine, this hardcover is in VG condition: completely clean, binding strong & straight. lf gift inscription in small neat pen on ffep. Heavy page tanning, commensurate with age & paper quality of the period. The price-clipped DJ is downgraded to Good+ due to slight chipping to both ends of spine & lesser edgewear all around. Nicely protected in new mylar cover Free !Our photos depict the exact book you will… Read More

New York: Mayflower Books, Inc.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0831793503 . A facsimile of the original 1928 Macmillan and Company edition of "The Water Babies," which first appeared in 1863. This edition of the children's classic with illustrations by Linley Sambourne on color plates, color illustrated endpapers and in black & white. --- In green paper-covered boards with titling and illustrations in black and red to spine, sewn-in red satin placemarker and red topstain. Volume wrapped in green jacket with Sambourne illustration to cover. --- With mild chafing to lower edges of covers, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked, sturdy copy. Price-clipped jacket with a couple of stains to back panel and mild sunning to spine, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 280 pages .

New York: Mayflower, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Facsimile edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.