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T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 117 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Front free endpaper cut out. Markings to some pages. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Small areas of loss to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Hardcover. Good. Katharine Cameron. A Good copy. 12mo., 117 pp., with full color art nouveau drawings by Cameron. Bound in publishers tan cloth with tipped on plate on front cover. titles and decoration in gilt on spine and front cover. Boards are soiled and worn. Text block starting to split at page 56, with webbing exposed. Pages are chipped along edges and show some toning. Still a Good copy of this classic with lovely full color images. Kingsley's concern for social reform is illustrated in his classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863), a tale about a boy chimney sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. The story mentions the main protagonists in the scientific debate over human origins, rearranging his earlier satire as the "great hippopotamus test". The book won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963.

London And New York: T. C. & E. C. Jack / E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. c. 1910. Hardcover. Dutton imprint on spine. Light creen cloth, gilt titles and decoration; color illustration on front- "The Fairies Had Turned Him Into A Water Baby". 8 color plates by Cameron. Very light soiling on rear; gift writing on front endpaper. ; 4-1/2" x 6-3/4"; 117 pages .

London; New York: T. C. & E. C. Jack; E. P. Dutton & Co.. Greenn cloth cover with gilt titles and color paste-down. Some cloth chipping to the board corners and spine ends, some cover soiling. Previous owner's name on the front end paper, small paper residue on the title page. U3 . Good. Cloth.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd Told to the Children Series. Undated. Small format red cloth boards lacking dustwrapper; 119pp; eight colour plates by Anne Anderson. Slight lean to spine with light marking to cloth. [120:J2]. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by ANDERSON, Anne.

T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1910T. hardcover. Good. 1.0000 7.3000 5.1000. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing. Loose/torn hinges. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Foxing on the edges, pages are tanned and clean.

London & New York : T.C. & E. S. Jack / E. P. Dutton & Co., 1905?. HARDCOVER . VII + 117 p., a frontispiece and seven further colour plates (as called for, 2 x 15 cm., (Original black-printed, pictorial light-green cloth-covered boards/black titles, pages unopened, back cover rests of water damage, else VERY GOOD) 'Darwin's ORIGIN had a profound influence on Kingsley. His story of Tom and Elsie as trasmuted 'water-babies' is considered one of the first 'literary' responses to Darwin's work. This tale was written and published two years prior to ALICE IN WONDERLAND and is one of the earliest fantasies for children written by an English author - Megan Webster.'