Kingsley, Charles

The Water Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With illustrates by Katherine Cameron.

CHARLES KINGSLEY. Katherine Cameron. · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd., London & Edinburgh [no date]., Katherine Cameron., A handsome Katherine Cameron-illustrated edition of the Victorian classic, her contributions comprising a title page decoration and eight colour plates. 8vo. [v], 246pp. Blue-green cloth, lettered, rul...

Westward Ho!

Kingsley, Charles · 1930 · Valley Books

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Macrae Smith Co. Circa 1930. 604pp. Blue cloth binding with color pastedown. Numerous b&w and several color plates by Thornton Oakley. Private bookplate on front flyleaf. Short gift inscription on verso of front cover dated 1935. Light wear, spine gilt partially faded. Photos ...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, [1922]. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated edition of this popular children's fairy-tale by Charles Kingsley, with coloured plates. A later edition, originally published in 1863.  In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.  W...

Works by Charles Kingsley Including Two Years Ago, Alton Lock (Tailor and Poet), Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face, Yeat: A Problem and Poems

Charles Kingsley · 1900 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1900-1902. Leather. An attractively bound set of novels and poems by Charles Kingsley, published between 1900 and 1902. Containing Two Years Ago, Alton Lock (Tailor and Poet), Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face, Yeat: A Problem and Poems. Charles Ki...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. In Two Volumes

Charles Kingsley · 1888 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1888. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Kingsley's writings, dating from the 1880s. Sixteenth Abridged Edition. 'Edited by his wife&apos. Both volumes feature tissue-guarded frontispieces. Complete in two volumes. With the bookplates o...

The Heroes; or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Charles Kingsley · 1868 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1868. Leather. A beautifully illustrated first new edition of Kingsley"s beloved myth retellings of Perseus, Theseus, and Jason for young readers. New edition.Illustrated with eight colour plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. In a fu...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley; His Wife [editor] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1914. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of letters and memories from the life of Charles Kingsley. Later edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of letters and memories of the life of Charles Kingsley, a broad churc...

Glaucus or the Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley · 1903 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1903. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's influential natural history work. The fifth edition, ninth impression of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Illustrated with eleven colour plate...

Westward Ho! or the Voyages & Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh

Charles Kingsley · 1923 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London , J.M. Dent , 1923. Cloth. A charming copy of Charles Kingsley's historical novel Westward Ho!, beautifully illustrated with sixteen coloured plates. A very well presented copy of Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! A historical novel that was based on the real ex...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1922 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co. [1922]. Cloth. A charming volume comprising Charles Kingsley's popular novel for children with numerous coloured plates by Harry G. Theaker. An undated copy of this popular English novel for children by Charles Kingsley. Dated from...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1922 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1922. Cloth. A beautifully and colourfully illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's popular children's fairy tale, illustrated in colour by Harry G. Theaker. 'The Water-Babies' is a children's fairy tale that was extr...

The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Charles Kingsley · 1904 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. Leather. A smartly bound collection of retold Greek myths and legends from Charles Kingsley, written for children with illustrations. Later edition. Illustrated throughout. A collection of retold Greek myths and legends written for chil...

Hereward the Wake &Apos;Last of the English&Apos;

Charles Kingsley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1889. Leather. A smartly bound later edition of this popular historical novel by Charles Kingsley. In a prize binding for Southampton University, with a prize label to the recto of the front endpaper, dated 1888.Charles Kingsley's popular histori...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley; Frances Eliza Grenfell · 1881 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881. Cloth. A touching biography on the poet and author Charles Kingsley, an illustrated memoir written by his widow. Complete in two volumes.An insightful biography on the life and career of the priest, social reformer, historian, and novelist, Ch...

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1912 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London , Chapman and Hall , 1912. Cloth. A charming copy of the 'Water-Babies', a Victorian classic by Charles Kingsley, beautifully illustrated with colour plates. 'The Water-Babies' is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley originally written as a se...

Hereward the Wake, &Apos;Last of the English&Apos;

Charles Kingsley · 1893 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Macmillan and Co , 1893. Leather. Charles Kingsley's historical novel about the Norman Conquest in an attractive full calf school prize binding. A later edition of Charles Kinglsely's historical adventure novel concerning the Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Nor...

Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh

Charles Kingsley · 1855 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Cambridge, Macmillan & Co. 1855. Cloth. The uncommon second edition of one of Kingsley's most popular novels. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Complete in Three Volumes. This particular copy comes from the Worcester Public Library, Reference Department, with a lib...

Two Years Ago

Charles Kingsley · 1880 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Charles Kingsley's novel. 'Two Years Ago' was written at the peak of Kingsley's career as an author. The novel features Kingsley's famed descriptive abilities. Kingsley had a skill for viv...

Poems

Charles Kingsley · 1889 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. Leather. A collection of poetry and sermons, written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the Church of England. Kingsley was a notable social reformer, university professor, historian and novelist. He was a friend and correspondent wit...

The Novels of Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley · 1902 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.82 | ¥78,059)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1902-1906. Leather. A uniformly-bound collection of the writings of Charles Kingsley, historian, novelist and priest. Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Gr...