The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
1968. Reprinted. 236 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece by Charles Mozley. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to half-title page. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Spine noticeably sunned. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.