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THE WATER-BABIES. Told To The Children By Amy Steedman
de Kingsley, Charles. Amy Steedman. Pictures by Katharine Cameron
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Hardcover. Good. Katharine Cameron. A Good copy. 12mo., 117 pp., with full color art nouveau drawings by Cameron. Bound in publishers tan cloth with tipped on plate on front cover. titles and decoration in gilt on spine and front cover. Boards are soiled and worn. Text block starting to split at page 56, with webbing exposed. Pages are chipped along edges and show some toning. Still a Good copy of this classic with lovely full color images. Kingsley's concern for social reform is illustrated in his classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863), a tale about a boy chimney sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. The story mentions the main protagonists in the scientific debate over human origins, rearranging his earlier satire as the "great hippopotamus test". The book won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963.
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- Frey Fine Books
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- Título
- THE WATER-BABIES. Told To The Children By Amy Steedman
- Autor
- Kingsley, Charles. Amy Steedman. Pictures by Katharine Cameron
- Ilustrador
- Katharine Cameron
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
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- 1
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- E.P. Dutton & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
