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The Water Babies: The Washington Square Classics
de Kingsley, Charles
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien
- Librería
-
Olympia, Washington, United States
Precio
EUR 28.09EUR 25.28
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Sobre este artículo
No dust jacket. Blue fabric covered boards little wear. Illustration glued onto the front cover, with gilt print and trim. The fabric over the spine is darkened, as is the gilt print thereon. Owners name on the half-title page. Seven color illustrations are included. Books of this era would have stitched pages, but the illustration plates were often glued in place after the fact. This meant that they were more likely to come loose. One illustration has been reattached with what is now very old and yellow tape, and two others are coming loose from the lower corner. The pages are clean and tight. Decorated endpapers. A well-known fairy tale that doesn't have to be read just for children. No date in the book, but research leads me to believe this volume was published in the 1930s. Rare.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Turtleman Used Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- ST09419
- Título
- The Water Babies
- Autor
- Kingsley, Charles
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- MacRae, Smith & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Philadelphia
- Fecha de publicación
- ca. 1930
- Páginas
- 275
- Tamaño
- 14.7 cm x 19.8 cm x 3.2 cm
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Young Adult; Children/ Early Readers; Collectable; Classics; Fairy Tales;
Términos de venta
Turtleman Used Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Turtleman Used Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
Olympia, Washington
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Opened August 1st of 2022, Turtleman Used Books in Olympia, WA. Address is 108 22nd Ave SW, Olympia, WA 98501. Suite #4. This is a small shop, so some books may only be displayed online, others only displayed in the store. Come on by if you are in town. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Many of my books are oversized. Rather than ask for shipping adjustments at the time of purchase, the list price for heavier books includes the excess shipping cost. All of my photographs are of the actual product, taken by my trusty little Kindle Fire. Currently we have about 2900 books offered for sale online, with more being added daily. Check back frequently to see what's new. -----
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
