The Water Babies Charles Kingsley
1904. Illustrated Pocket Classics. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Minor dog-eared corners. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Book has a slight forward lean.