The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

by Charles Kingsley

$5,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1863. First edition, first printing. First issue with L'Envoy leaf present. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, brown coated endsheets. Good. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends, with frayed started at the rear joint. Cloth lightly rubbed, with front cover mottled. Front and rear inner hinges are exposed, leaving binding a bit tender. Pages toned.

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