The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles (Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Weare,, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
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 block tight, with a few loose but complete pages. 12 full page color illustrations by Smith tipped in, all present and compelte - that at frontis loose. Overall the whole shows light shelf wear, most notable at extremeties where cloth shows wear, lightly bumped corners and rolling to head and foot of spine. A terrific copy of this important social commentary/children's book. .
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
- Boomer's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21823
- Title
- The Water-Babies
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles (Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Co
- Date Published
- 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antique Children's Books;
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About the Seller
Boomer's Books
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Weare,, New Hampshire
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- Cloth
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- Tipped In
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
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- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
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