By Susan Chitty

New York: Mason/Charter, 1975.

 First American edition, first printing.

Fine in textured, crisp-orange boards with black embossed titles to the spine, family tree illustrated violet end-papers; in a nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny tear at the lower corner of the front flap fold and minor rubbing to rear panel; original printed $11.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Illustrated with numerous photographs and reproductions of Kingsley's private drawings.

Remarkable biography of the Victorian Renaissance man, who was theologian, historian, poet, amateur scientist and author of the enduring children's fantasy THE WATER BABIES.

Draws upon previously suppressed sources that reveal Kingsley's hidden erotic life.

 Octavo; 317 pages; appendixes; bibliography; index.

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