The Water Babies and Glaucus
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., 1910. Scarce early printing of the children's classic, with an essay on the virtue of studying the natural history of the seashore, #277 in the Everyman's series; in the scarcer dust jacket, mentioning only Dutton as the publisher, listing about 450 titles. Stated second printing [thus], two years after the first. Small hardcover, full blue cloth. Light wear to book; minor edgewear/bumping; jacket shows light chipping, some loss to head of spine, short tear, minor creasing. Text clean; xiii, [3], 310 pages; a few illustrations.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by J. Noel Paton. 4½" by 7".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- t0437
- Title
- The Water Babies and Glaucus
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Illustrator
- J. Noel Paton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Children's Books, Early Dust Jackets
- Size
- 4½" by 7"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...