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Charles Kingsley ; illus A.E. Jackson. The Water Babies. Oxford Univ. Press, 1929.
Price: US$33.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 252pp, 6 x 9 inches, . Has 12 col. plates as listed. Green binding has a fish swimming in gold circle. Gift inscription on inside front cover . spine sadly sunfaded. A study and appealing copy.
Seller: Nanny's Web, Caulfield South, VIC, Australia
Kingsley, Charles. The Water Babies. Oxford University Press, 1929.
Price: US$35.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Type: Book Sine sunned. Boards grubby. Internally fine.
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, illustrated cloth-gilt, 252pp., frontis. + 15 tipped-in color plates. Good to VG: spine and boards mildly soiled and darkened, edges lightly spotted; hinges weakened but holding; light spotting to prelims/endpapers; text clean and undamaged; illustrations clean with a faint crease down the middle of the last. A presentable copy with the cherished Jackson illustrations.
Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies. Oxford University Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
KINGSLEY (Charles).. The Water Babies. Oxford University Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$192.04 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 16 colour plates, including frontipiece, and black and white illustrations. 4to. [238 x 168 x 38 mm]. 252pp. Bound in the publisher's original light blue cloth, the front cover and spine illustrated and lettered in gilt and dark blue, illustrated endleaves, untrimmed edges, in the original matching dust-wrapper (gilt lettering faded on cloth spine, head and tail of spine of wrapper neatly repaired.) First published in 1920, this is the first reprint. A few minor spots or marks but a very good copy.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom