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The Water-Babies
de Kingsley, Charles
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Librería
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1929. Later Printing. Hardcover. 252 p. 23 cm. Reprint of the 1920 first edition with these illustrations. Sound and square binding in green, cloth-covered boards. Corners lightly bumped. Some wear and fading to edges and spotting along the top edges. Light foxing to text block edges. Endpapers have some soiling and an inscribed label at front. There is a tiny bit of spotting to the first ten pages, otherwise the pages are clean with some age toning. Dustwrapper has heavy edge wear, including chipping, tears, holes, and larger pieces missing at the spine ends. The spine is darkened. It is heavily soiled and brittle overall. An illustrated edition of the classic tale of young Tom, the chimney sweep who falls in the river and is transformed into a 'water-baby'. Includes twelve colour plates by English illustrator A.E. Jackson. .
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
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1894
- Título
- The Water-Babies
- Autor
- Kingsley, Charles
- Ilustrador
- A. E. Jackson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edición
- Later Printing
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1929
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Children's - Classics;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
Sobre Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glosario
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
