[publisher: A. L. Burt Company] Good condition. No date stated, ca. 1890s. (Fairy Tales, Juvenile Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.]

ISBN10: 9187611252, ISBN13: 9789187611254, [publisher: Timaios Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A grim, wonderful and classic fantasy tale for children and adults: A poor maltreated boy is working as a chimney-sweep. He drowns, but continue to live and learn in the magical water world. Perhaps he and his friends -- drowned humans like him -- can get a second chance among the living An important aspect of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (first published 1862-63) is its criticism of child labour; the novel is credited with easing the passage of the Chimney Sweepers Regulation Act of 1864, prohibiting the use of minors as chimney-sweeps. This fairy tale for a modern age is also of interest in the history of science. Charles Kingsley (1819-75) was a famous author and a broad church priest of the Church of England, with a keen interest in biology and natural science; he was an early supporter of Darwinism. With its metamorphoses and evolving organisms, The Water-Babies popularized Darwin's theory of evolution for children, though with a bent for Lamarckism -- behaviour can be a driving force behind the evolution. In his review of On the Origin of Species (1859) a few days before the release, Kingsley explained that he 'long since, from watching the crossing of domesticated animals and plants, learnt to disbelieve the dogma of the permanence of species.' Kingsley and Charles Darwin became ...
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[publisher: Macmillan, London] PP, 330S, Illustrations from Linley Sambourne, englischer Text
[Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel, HH, Germany] [Publication Year: 1891]
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[publisher: J. M. Dent London 1942] Hardcover reprint hardback in decorated cloth Very Good octavo 284pp., colour frontis., colour plates, text ills., With 12 colour plates & decorated colour title-page. Light crinkling to first few pages o/w a nice bright, tight copy in green decorated boards with light wear. PHOTO available
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1942]

ISBN10: 160660113X, ISBN13: 9781606601136, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Okt 2017] Hardcover Neuware - Classic Victorian fairy tale recounts a runaway chimney sweep's adventures in a magical underwater world where he learns about truth, courage, and other virtues. Lovely hardcover edition with numerous drawings and 12 full-color plates.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
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ISBN10: 1298497132, ISBN13: 9781298497130, [publisher: ANDESITE PR] Hardcover
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2015]
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ISBN10: 160660113X, ISBN13: 9781606601136, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Okt 2017] Hardcover Neuware - Classic Victorian fairy tale recounts a runaway chimney sweep's adventures in a magical underwater world where he learns about truth, courage, and other virtues. Lovely hardcover edition with numerous drawings and 12 full-color plates.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2017]
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[publisher: London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co] Second edition, 8vo, (iv), 378 pp. Frontispiece and one plate, some foxing to early leaves, endpapers with some wear, signatures to fly leaf verso. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth, recently rebacked retaining the original spine. First published the year before.
[Lewes, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1864]
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NY:: Frederick A. Stokes Company,. Very Good. Date: 1891. Hardcover. With one hundred black and white illustrations. First printing of the Vignette edition. Octavo, bound in decorated cloth with floral pattern covered boards and gilt lettering and design. Light shelf wear and aging, else very good. Text is clean and binding is sound. ; 308 pages . 1891. Frederick A. Stokes Company, US

ISBN10: 1298497132, ISBN13: 9781298497130, [publisher: ANDESITE PR] Hardcover
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2015]
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1901 percaline bordeaux éditeur. in-12, (4ff.), 330pp., illustré, catalogue, London Macmillan & Co 1901
[France, Charolles, FRA] [Publication Year: 1901]

[publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd] Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition first edition with dust jacket. Some light wear, and darkened slightly with age otherwise a very well kept copy.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom]
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[publisher: A. & C. Black London 1930] Hardcover reprint 3/4 leather Nice copy small octavo vii + 275pp., colour frontis., colour plates, Bound in dark blue leather boards over pale blue cloth boards. Five raised bands at spine with gilt decorations. Marbled end papers & all edges marbled. Gilt device of Toorak College on the front board. Prize label of Toorak College on front paste-down. A nice School Prize binding
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1930]

No date, circa 1930, London, Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., pp279 + (viii), six colour plates, black and white illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell, red cloth, pictorial paper front cover.
[Honiton, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1930]
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ISBN10: 3382192241, ISBN13: 9783382192242, [publisher: Anatiposi Verlag] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2023]
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[publisher: Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press Cambridge] Hardcover X,319 pp. Few of the textillustrations are painted by child`s hand, few pages with pencil marginalia, some pages slightly foxed, overall good copy (II) 874 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700 8°, cloth with mounted coloured plate,
[Langen, Germany] [Publication Year: 1923]
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[publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company] Hardcover Green cloth cover with color vignette shows minor wear and soiling. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Pages tanned and clean, with 8 color plates.
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1915]

[publisher: London: Macmillan and Co., 1874] Hardcover [Children's Classic] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 388 [2]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf by BICKERS & SON, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Illustrated bookplate to flyleaf. A little toning and spotting to first and final leaves. Lower half of upper hinge and joint split, with an archival tape repair to hinge. Moderate wear to spine and extremities. Very good. The classic children's tale, first published in 1863.
[Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1874]
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[publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris and New York] Hardcover A lovely illustrated edition of this important piece of children's fiction, with a pictorial cover and colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell. 'The Water-Babies' was originally written as part-satire to support 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin, and quickly became a classic piece of children's literature. As with many classic pieces of Victorian literature, it functions as a didactic moral fable, telling of young chimney sweep Tom's moral education. Penned by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), a priest, professor, novelist, poet and friend of Charles Darwin.Illustrated with six full colour plates by illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964), three of which are loose but present. Attwell was also the illustrator for a number of other important classic children's works, such as 'Mother Goose', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Peter Pan and Wendy'.In the publisher's original binding with an illustrated cover.Published for the Golden Treasure Library. In a full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, spine a touch faded with wear to the front board and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Gift inscription to the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound with a few illustrations loose but present, pages with the odd spot but generally bright and clean. Very Good
[Bath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: ...
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MAC MILLAN AND CO. 1908. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 118 pages augmentées de 100 illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte - texte sur 2 colonnes - 1er plat désolidarisé mais conservé - nombreux manques sur le dos - 1 Tampon sur la page de titre - OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS -. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon Illustré par Linley Sambourne Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
[France, Sablons, FRA] [Publication Year: 1908]

[publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1928, London] Hardcover Children's Edition. viii, 280 pp. Publisher's deluxe full leather binding with gilt decoration & lettering to front board & spine. All edges gilt. Spine slightly faded with wear & chipping to spine ends. Ink owner's name to endpapers. Internally clean. Double-page full-colour extra-endpaper illustrations. Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by Linley Sambourne. 8vo. Illustrated
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1928]
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ISBN10: 1473334713, ISBN13: 9781473334717, [publisher: Pook Press] Softcover
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2016]
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[publisher: MAC MILLAN AND CO] Softcover RO80198049: 1908. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 118 pages augmentées de 100 illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte - texte sur 2 colonnes - 1er plat désolidarisé mais conservé - nombreux manques sur le dos - 1 Tampon sur la page de titre - OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS -. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
[SABLONS, France] [Publication Year: 1908]
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[publisher: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton] Hardcover 212pp, London, No Jacket. bound in green cloth with gilt title to spine, and decorative gilt picture on front board. all 11 boards.Gift inscription dated 1912.
[Caulfield South, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1909]
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[publisher: Macmillan & Co, London] Hardcover 388pp. with a frontispiece and three other drawings. + 42 pp general catalogue. Einband an Rückengelenken und Ecken etwas berieben, Seiten teils von Hand aufgeschnitten, Innengelenke etwas angeplatzt, sonst sauberes, gutes Expl. mit fester Bindung. Covers a little worn on spine and corners, hinges just slightly starting, else a nice clean copy of an early edition. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 Oktav 8°. Hardback with blue cloth and guilt printed title on spine / vignette on cover. With [4] illustrations by Sir Noel Patan and Percival Skelton. New edition.
[Bovenden, Germany] [Publication Year: 1869]