THE WATER BABIES A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND BABY by CHARLES KINGSLEY. ILLUSTRATED BY WARWICK GOBLE - 1924

London; New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited; The Macmillan Company, 1904. Hardcover, limp leather, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Fair/No Dust Jacket. With 100 illustrations by Linley Sambourne. 330 pages. Illustrated Pocket Classics for the Young. Whole and complete but fragile, needs TLC. Top edge gilt, covers rather worn, leather edges crumbly, cracking/split. Best known for his historical romances, Kingsley was a 19th century English clergyman, novelist, and poet.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1891 PRINTING. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Covers (green boards with elaborate gilt design) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact. Book shelf-cocked. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Penguin Books , pp. 224 . Papeback. New.

J. M. Dent, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. London, illustrated cloth covered boards; mild edge wear; illustrated jacket in acceptable condition with edges and corners chipped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 284 pages.

Henry Altemus Co.,, 1899T. hardcover. Good. . Illustrated cloth cover shows minor wear, tanning, and staining/foxing. Pages are lightly tanned.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1111. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 5 colour plates + colour plate pasted to front cover. Red cloth cover w bevelled edges , worn corners and top & btm sp. . ffep missing 1 plate loose. Some b/w pictures have been coloured in.

Macmillan and Co., 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1891. No edition remarks. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Linley Sambourne. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean.

Gilbert H. McKibben, 1900. First edition. With Sixty Illustrations. Perhaps first McKibben edition. Very good illustrated boards with clean profusely illustrated text throughout.

Sydney: Times House. Very Good; Yellowed paper, surface wear to back cover.. 1987. Hardcover. 1862560587 . Decorative gold lettering on red hard cover and spine, no jacket. 400gms weight; Children's Classics; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages .

NY: : Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers, 1895. 16mo; cloth covered decorative boards, hardcover; 268 pages; color frontis and b&w photographic illustrations; Christmas 1897 in ink of front endpaper else a good, clean, tight copy in edgeworn boards with a sunned spine.