Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard cover, no dust jacket, published by Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. in 1925. Green covers with gilt lettering and designs. Corners are bumped and bent, with some wear. Spine is cocked some. Endpapers and first and last few pages have some foxing or spotting. Front endpaper has some faint writing in pencil in upper corner. Second page has a gift inscription written at top, with a date of 1929. All twelve color plates and tissue guards are present. Book is in good condition. Small 4to, 240 pages, 2.1 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 240 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Charles Kingsley. The Water Babies. Hodder & Stoughton For Boots Pure Drug Co., London, 1925.
Price: US$71.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated - circa 1925. Gilt decorated boards are clean with bright gilt lettering. All 12 Jessie Willcox Smith colour plates are present. Clean & tight book. PAGE EDGES ARE FOXED. No inscriptions. Jacket has wear & tear. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H58807. Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Published circa 1925 by Hodder & Stoughton of London for Boots Pure Drug Co.,UK
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom