The Water Babies

London: Boots, 1929.

First Edition thus. Quarto. pp [x] + 240. Tipped-in coloured frontispiece plus 11 tipped in coloured plates. Decorative border to titlepage and half-title. Original emerald green cloth with embossed gilt design of a water baby riding a fish to the front board, gilt titles to front and spine. Spotting to edges of text block and rear pastedown pages. With the pictorial dust-jacket, slightly chipped, spine sl darkened and faded. A VG+ copy.