1.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Harry G. Theaker.
Circa 1949, Ward Lock.
Printed to Wartime Economy Standard.
Colour frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Undated; prize label on front pastedown dated 1949.
Slight wear to corners of covers.
Good condition.
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3.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Reprint, 1994, Wordsworth Editions.
ISBN: 1853261483.
Paperback.
Minor wear to edges of covers.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very good condition.
4.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Circa 1970, Dean and Son.
Octavo.
Green covers.
Black lettering on spine.
184 pages.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
5.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Circa 1970, Dean and Son.
Blue covers.
Dustwrapper worn and a little scuffed.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition with dust-wrapper.
6.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Harry G. Theaker.
Circa 1949, Ward Lock.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
16cm x 21cm.
340 pages.
Some light wear to covers, and one or two marks.
A little faint spotting to top edge.
Name on front endpaper.
Pages lightly tanned.
Good condition.
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8.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Jessie Wilcox-Smith.
1981, Hodder and Stoughton.
ISBN: 0340274581.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers and spine.
Gilt decoration on covers and spine.
18cm x 25cm.
240 pages.
Second impression (1981).
Cellophane dustwrapper intact, apart from chip at top of spine and two small tears neatly taped.
Book itself near-fine, except that pages very slightly tanned.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
9.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
1963, Juvenile Productions.
Edited by Howard Marshall.
8th book in Martyn Library series.
Paperback.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Slightly unusual paperback edition in a dustwrapper.
Light wear and some soiling to dustwrapper.
Pages tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
10.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Harold Jones.
1969, Victor Gollancz.
ISBN: 057500259X.
Green embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
A little light foxing to dustwrapper.
Book itself in excellent condition.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
11.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Harry G. Theaker.
Circa 1939, Ward Lock & Co.
Grey cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
16cm x 22cm.
340 pages.
Pictorial endpapers.
Four pages of adverts at rear.
48 colour plates (all present and undamaged).
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Covers and endpapers clean and unmarked.
Some faint foxing to fore-edge and top-edge, contents not affected.
Not dated, but gift dedication at top of half-title is dated 1939.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
12.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Circa 1929, Raphael Tuck and Sons.
Octavo.
Bevilled green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Picture onlay to front cover.
280 pages.
8 pages of adverts at rear.
Undated edition; dated from gift dedication on front pastedown.
Covers worn, and edges and corners slightly bumped.
Picture onlay scuffed.
Spine a little faded.
Endpapers a little soiled, and have remains of a childs transfer stickers, depicting dogs, on them.
Contents close to VG.
Good condition.
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The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Circa 1950, Juvenile Productions.
Paperback.
25cm x 31cm.
32 pages.
Large format staple-bound paperback.
Abridged, with text on left hand pages, and full page colour illustrations on the right hand pages.
Illustrator not credited.
Covers worn at edges and slightly soiled.
Some occasional light marking to page edges, contents otherwise generally good.
Good condition.
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The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Warwick Goble.
1924, Macmillan and Co.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on spine.
Top edge gilt.
15cm x 21cm.
16 colour plates.
Light wear to covers.
Corners slightly bumped.
Faint mark at lower edge of front cover.
Spine a little soiled.
Contents VG.
Good condition.