The Water Babies

by Charles Kingsley Jessie Wilcox Smith

$94 · Offered by Second Story Books

London: Hodder & Stoughton/Boots the Chemist, c. 1929. Octavo, 240 pages with 12 tipped in color plates. In Good plus condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and detailing. Boards have fraying to spine edges, rubbing and bumping to corners, and mild shelf wear. Textblock has mild age toning, partial splitting to front interior hinge, partial tearing to leaf between frontispiece and title page at tail edge of gutter,

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