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THE WATER BABIES: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was meant as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species but became a mainstay of British children's literature.
Blackie & Sons Ltd., printed in Glasgow, undated, estimate 1931.
White/navy tweed covers with brilliant scarlet lettering on the spine.
Only the dust jacket is illustrated and the illustrator's name is not mentioned.
This book has never been read. I don't think it's ever been opened. The spine is not cracked, the price remains on the dust jacket, it is spotlessly clean. There is shelf wear to the top of the dust jacket, but it has done its job, and there is no fading to the jacket.
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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
- Louise Aird
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34
- Title
- THE WATER BABIES
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Sons
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 205
- Size
- 4 ½” x 7 1/4”
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Water Babies, Fairy Tales, Children's Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; British Fiction; Children & Youth; Fantasy & Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Louise Aird
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About the Seller
Louise Aird
Biblio member since 2019
West Vancouver, British Columbia
About Louise Aird
Private individual who has been collecting books for 40 years.
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Spine
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