Kipling, Just So Stores, 1902

From the Library of Christian Heuer

KIPLING, RUDYARD

Just So Stories for Little Children. Macmillan, 1902

large 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 22 plates and numerous text illustrations by the author, original moderate red crisscross pictorial cloth boards lettered in white and illustrated in white and black white endpapers, preserved in blue cloth folding box, slight offsetting to endpapers and a touch of wear to edges of binding, OTHERWISE A FINE COPY

A LOVELY COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S PERENNIALLY POPULAR collects ION OF TALES, in effect his 'farewell to India', most of which had first appeared in various English or American periodicals between 1897 and 1902, though the accompanying poems, and one story ("How the Alphabet was Made") appear here for the first t.mes .

LITERATURE:

Richards A181

PROVENANCE:

Mrs J. Insley Blair, green morocco book-label, sale of property from her library at Replica Shoes 's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 187

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