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THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby
de Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Linley Sambourne
- Usado
- very good
- Estado
- Very Good/Good
- Librería
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Children's edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Linley Sambourne. 1st "Children's Edition", 1928. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 280 pp., with both full color and black & white illustrations by Samborne. Bound in publishers green decorated cloth with white dust jacket featuring an ocean vignette on front cover. Dust jacket is toned and soiled, with edges, tips and spine chipped. Top 1" of spine is missing, price clipped. Cloth covers are good with spine faded, front hinge starting, attractive bookplate of previous owner on blank end page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. SCARCE version of this dust jacket featuring this image. 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 written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.
The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favor in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics and Americans. - Wiki.
The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favor in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics and Americans. - Wiki.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Frey Fine Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 27578
- Título
- THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby
- Autor
- Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by Linley Sambourne
- Ilustrador
- Linley Sambourne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Children's edition
- Editorial
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1928
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
