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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1864, 310pp, illus., blindstampe design to covers, gilt design & lettering to cover & spine, teg, slight shelfwear to cover, some wear to spine ends, cover is detached from text block tear to front free ep & front flyleaf, owner's anme to half title, slight foxing to half title, rear free ep w/ creased corner, contents clean & unmarked.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beautifully rebound, boards are half brown leather and marbled paper with leather corner tips. Spine is stamped in gilt lettering. Brown top stain. Speckled foredge and foot. Laid cream endpapers. Illustrated occasionally throughout with black and white illustrations by J. Noel Paton. Frontispice is a whimsical depiction of waterbabies and a fish under water. "L'ENVOI" is found on the verso side opposite the beginning of chapter 1. 310 pp. This rebound copy is absolutely lovely in bright colors and smooth leather. A very solid copy that fits nicely in hand. Some discoloration at the corners within endpapers. Lightly toned pages are occasionally foxed throughout, yet unmarked. Illustrations are delightful. A wonderful copy. Full refund if not satisfied. ABOUT THE AUTHOR & THIS BOOK: "Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. [.] 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." (Wikipedia).
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Presumed First American Printing. T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1864; no later printings indicated, "L'Envoi" on page facing Chapter One; [vi], [2], 8-310pp., chapter initial illustrations and two illustrated plates with tissue guards. Original brown textured and decorated cloth, rebacked in red buckram with original backstrip glued over and end pages replaced. Slight forward lean to spine, binding is otherwise sturdy and fully intact; edges of boards are worn, cloth split over corners; front board rubbed, gilt design dulled but clearly visible, gilt on backstrip dulled and only faintly legible; very light wear to gilt top edge; interior and text/illustrations are clean and crisp. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 310 pp. With Illustrations by J. Noel Paton. 8vo, publisher's purple cloth with gilt vignette on front cover; rebacked with a new spine. First US edition. A few scattered light stains; edges of boards rubbed and rebacked with a new cloth gilt-lettered spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 310 pp. With Illustrations by J. Noel Paton. 8vo, publisher's purple gilt cloth, t.e.g. First US edition. 1864 ink ownership annotation on front pastedown; irregular white spotting to cloth; spine sunned; light use; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Professionally rebacked, with endpapers replaced, else a fine copy of this children's classic.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 310 pp. With Illustrations by J. Noel Paton. 8vo, publisher's green gilt cloth. First US edition. A very attractive, tight and sound copy with only the very slightest of wear at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.