KIPLING, Rudyard.

Just So Stories

Name: Just So Stories
Brand: KIPLING, Rudyard.
SKU: 121522
Price: 950.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

For Little Children.

Stock Code 121522

London, Macmillan and Co., 1902.

£950

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Kipling's famous stories include: How the Whale Got His Throat, How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Leopard Got His Spots, The Elephant's Child, The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, The Beginning of the Armadilloes, How the First Letter Was Written, How the Alphabet Was Made, The Crab that Played with the Sea, The Cat that Walked by Himself, and The Butterfly that Stamped.

First edition, first impression, large 8vo (24 x 18.5 cm); 22 full-page illustrations by the author, minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers, bookplate to ffep; publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in white and black to upper board and spine, small scratch mark across pictorial board, small indentation to corner, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, otherwise very good; [6], 249pp, [3].

Provenance

Margaret Dodd (Bookplate to front free endpaper).

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