The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley
1910. No Edition Remarks. 327 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and ink stamp inscription to front pastedown and free endpaper. Hinges are heavily cracked with exposed netting. Moderate cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.