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THE WATER BABIES
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
-
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.
This is a copy of the First Abridged Edition published by The Children's Press (UK) in 1964.
The illustrator of the dust jacket is not named; the book itself is not illustrated.
124 pages, 4" x 6".
Red cloth with brilliant silver on the spine.
Minor wear to the dust jacket, which is unclipped.
Very thick paper, which has darkened. There is no evidence that this book has been read; aside from the darkening of the paper, it's perfect.
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 #
- 1629
- Title
- THE WATER BABIES
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Abridged
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Children's Press
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 124
- Size
- 4" x 6"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Fiction; Children & Youth;
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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- Spine
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