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Boston: T. O. H. P. Burnham, 1868. Hardcover. Fair. 6 x 7 in. Mauve cloth boards. Condition is FAIR ; both covers detached and spine cloth gone. Ffep and second blank still attached to front board. Sewn binding holding well re the text, and the text is clean and unmarked. Chil. Stax.

Macmillan, 1878, New edition,. Good. 1878. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, (viii),388,(2)pp, 4 plates, owner's gift inscription on endaper, foxing on endpapers and edges, otherwise clean and sound, uniform blue cloth gilt, edges bumped, some staining on spine and rear board, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Black, yellow and green stamped beige cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 104pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild toning and wear to edges of boards, binding tight, front endpapers heavily off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has edgewear that includes tears and chips, rubbing and soil, now in archival mylar wrap.

1967. HB w/dustjacket. Good. 1967 HB w/dustjacket Good++ Ex-libray Dj in Mylar wrap some light wear 246 pgs Text Good+ condition A Fairy-Tale for a Land-Baby The Children's Illustrated Classics Illustrated by Rosalie K. Fry; Published E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc. C3 ISBN: 0001661752

London: Dent, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rosalie K. Fry. First edition first printing thus in Dent Children's Illustrated Classics series. Hardback viii + 284 pages 4 colour plates plus many black and white illustrations by Rosalie K. Fry. Very Good condition decorated cloth in good+ unclipped dust jacket (loss of small amount of material from top edge) No inscriptions. Scarce as first edition in this series.

London: Macmillan, 1924. New Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New edition second printing. Large octavo hardback. Red pictorial gilt cloth, top edge gilt. viii, 274 pp. Illustrated with 16 colour plates Very Good condition. Nice bright copy. Original owner's name at front.

London: Macmillan, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. very good in red cloth boards with gilt illustration, no dust jacket; some wrinkles to free front endpaper, browning to half-title page, back hinge slightly loose, rubbing to board edges/corners, some foxing to fore-edge else a tight square unmarked copy with gilt top edge; all 16 illustrations by Warwick Goble are present, intact and bright

Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1900. Undated, ca. 1900. Lovely edition of this children's classic with four memorable color plates by Linley Sambourne accompanied by dozens of other illustrations in black and white. Pictorial tan cloth printed in color, no dustjacket, likely as issued, 6.75 inches tall. Modest cover wear, mainly some light ribbing to the extremities, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages, name and 1904 date on front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Children's edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Linley Sambourne. 1st "Children's Edition", 1928. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 280 pp., with both full color and black & white illustrations by Samborne. Bound in publishers green decorated cloth with white dust jacket featuring an ocean vignette on front cover. Dust jacket is toned and soiled, with edges, tips and spine chipped. Top 1" of spine is missing, price clipped. Cloth covers are good with spine faded, front hinge starting, attractive bookplate of previous owner on blank end page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. SCARCE version of this dust jacket featuring this image. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. The… Read More