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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in an attractive and intact binding. Lettering on the spine is faded. Several pages are cut short in the text at the top of the text block. Minor foxing at the outer edges of the text block. Attractive volume from the late 19th or early 20th century.
Synopsis
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, blacks, Americans, and the poor. In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- pp701901
- Title
- The Water-Babies
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Blue and gold decorative cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Vintage Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Grampy's Bookcase
Biblio member since 2018
Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
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- Text Block
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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