Just So Stories For Little Children.

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KIPLING, Rudyard.

Just So Stories For Little Children.

Just So Stories For Little Children.

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Stock Code 85481

London, Macmillan, 1902

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"Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild" . A beautiful copy of these popular stories, each having a typical theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat from a swallowed mariner who tied a raft in there to block the whale from swallowing others. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel refusing to work, etc.

First edition. 4to., illustrations throughout by the author, original pictorial red cloth lettered in white, morocco book label, gift inscription to front free endpaper, an excellent copy with unfaded spine, green morocco-backed slipcase, spine faded to olive.

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