Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cover is in very poor condition, boards detached and backstrip shredded. Pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean. With lovely color plates.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$311.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition with cold illus. Good pp274. 32 mounted colour plates by Warwick Goble, lacks tissue guard p.146 original green cloth gilt dec. illus. sp. faded and worn, nicked at top. Good Price.
Seller: Mountaineering Books (Tony Astill), Southampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$362.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition thus, of the Goble illustrated version of the title. Decoratived green boards with tear to head of spine (see photo) and with the spine faded. Lighter fading to front and rear boards. Stain affecting the foot of the spine, along with minor penetration to the lower inner edges of the pastedowns and first/last couple of leaves. Gilt to all faces of the page block. Text generally bright, with some scattered spotting and finger-marking: consistent for age. 32 tipped-in colour plates with tissue guards, by Warwick Goble. Apart from the spinal tear, this is a very decent copy. Further details available on request. (Uc5)
Seller: Morning Mist Books and Maps, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 274 [2, ads] pp. Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates by Warwick Goble. 4to, publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth with gilt vignette on front panel; a.e.g. Spine and edges of cloth sunned; very slight use at extremities; contents very nice.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kingsley, Charles. Water Babies. Macmillan, London, 1909.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to, full green cloth with attractive pictorial gilt decoration of a baby riding a fish. 274pp. 32 lovely tissue-guarded color plates mounted on dark brown card stock by Warwick Goble. All edges gilt, light foxing to endpapers, corner torn off one tissue, cover gilt slightly faded and wear to top and bottom of spine else fine, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardback. 4to. Limited "Edition de Luxe", one of 260 copies. 4pp x, 273, (1) Original publisher's s gilt lettered and decorated vellum, lacking the silk ties. Frontispiece and 31 colour plates, all tipped in with captioned tissue guards. Slightly scuffed and slightly discoloured at spine, inner hinge cracked but sound overall very good bright copy.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Kingsley, Charles. THE WATER-BABIES. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1909.
Price: US$707.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st thus 1909. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 32 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, mounted on brown card with tissue guards. All edges gilt. Goble's most desired work. Spine is browned. Covers are unevenly faded. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Foxing to endpapers, a few page margins and outer page edges. 4 plates have light creases. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 274 [2] pp. With tipped-in color illustrations by Warwick Goble, each with printed tissue overleaf. Small 4to, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth; a.e.g. Bookplate on pastedown; spine a bit faded with the slightest of use to the cloth; contents beautiful.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1011.26 + shipping
Description: Limited "Edition de Luxe", one of 260 copies. 4to. x, 273, (1) pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated vellum, lacking the silk ties. Frontispiece and 31 colour plates, all tipped in with captioned tissue guards. Neatly recased in the original binding which is quite soiled and marked.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$1081.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 274 pp., Limited Edition. Full gilt decorated vellum binding, with top edge gilt. Some marks to the rear board and pencil mark to the spine. Lacking the original ties. Slight shaking to the binding, with wear to the hinges and webbing exposed. Minor occasional spotting, particularly to the extremities. Illustrated throughout with 34 tissue guarded, tipped in colour plates by Warwick Goble, complete. One of a limited edition of 260. The son of a warehouse operative, Goble was born in Hackney to a working class family. Trained at the City of London School (likely on a scholarship) and later Westminster School of art, he went on to develop a successful career as a book illustrator where his work was known for its sensitivity of tone. (Victorian Web) 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom