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The Water-Babies

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The Water-Babies

by Kingsley, Charles

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Very Good in Fair dust jacket
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London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1929. Later Printing. Hardcover. 252 p. 23 cm. Reprint of the 1920 first edition with these illustrations. Sound and square binding in green, cloth-covered boards. Corners lightly bumped. Some wear and fading to edges and spotting along the top edges. Light foxing to text block edges. Endpapers have some soiling and an inscribed label at front. There is a tiny bit of spotting to the first ten pages, otherwise the pages are clean with some age toning. Dustwrapper has heavy edge wear, including chipping, tears, holes, and larger pieces missing at the spine ends. The spine is darkened. It is heavily soiled and brittle overall. An illustrated edition of the classic tale of young Tom, the chimney sweep who falls in the river and is transformed into a 'water-baby'. Includes twelve colour plates by English illustrator A.E. Jackson. .

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
Homeward Bound Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1894
Title
The Water-Babies
Author
Kingsley, Charles
Illustrator
A. E. Jackson
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition
Later Printing
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1929
Bookseller catalogs
Children's - Classics;

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Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair
is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Dustwrapper
Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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....
Reprint
Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Text Block
Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Inscribed
When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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...
Soiled
Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.

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