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The Water Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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 tipped in tissue guarded plates by Jessie Willcox Smith (as called for). Reprint. Hardback. Good+/Good. Illus. by Willcox Smith, Jessie. 4to.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000184
- Title
- The Water Babies
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Illustrator
- Willcox Smith, Jessie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton for Boots
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Boots, Kingsley
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
Temple Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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