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The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0831793503
- ISBN 13
- 9780831793500
- Seller
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About This Item
Cleveland/New York: World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1937. Facsimile Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Lovely edition from 1937 of a book orig. published in 1863, in this special series of Children's Classics issued by World Syndicate. In 268 pages, with a few pen-and-ink illustrations from the original throughout (artist unattributed), though they look amazingly like Tenniel). This edition retains Matthew Arnold's poem, "The Forsaken Merman" at the end, which was removed from later editions. With deep blue cloth-covered boards & black lettering to front & spine, this hardcover is in VG condition: completely clean, binding strong & straight. lf gift inscription in small neat pen on ffep. Heavy page tanning, commensurate with age & paper quality of the period. The price-clipped DJ is downgraded to Good+ due to slight chipping to both ends of spine & lesser edgewear all around. Nicely protected in new mylar cover Free !Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.
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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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016121
- Title
- The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0831793503
- ISBN 13
- 9780831793500
- Publisher
- World Syndicate Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland/New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- FAIRY TALES FICTION CHILDREN FANTASY ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATORS ENGLISH ENGLAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Fairy Tales-Folklore-Fables-Mythology;
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- Reprint
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- Good+
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