The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- ACC/ACC/ND
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1895* Publisher: Macmillan & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, faded gilt title to rubbed spine & gilt impressed ?C.K.? logo to face. Slight bumps & rubs, considerable shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to tattered at head and tail of spine. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust Jacket. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners name and address inscription to front paste down. End papers removed. Binding slightly cracked at hinges and internally. Slight age and spotting to prelims and some to margins, otherwise clean and bright. Darkened top & fore-edge. ACC.* Illustrations: One Hundred b/w line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 330 pp. text. lvi pp., Macmillan?s publications listed at rear.* Description: ?The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby,? is a children's novel written in 1862?63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Catholics, Americans, and the poor!* An ACC reprint copy from 1895 with some age and wear but no dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3560
- Title
- The Water-Babies
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - ACC/ACC/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprnt
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London UK 0
- Date Published
- 1895-01-01
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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