KIPLING, Rudyard.

Just So Stories For Little Children.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1902.

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”: First Edition, first impression of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

First edition, first impression in the second issue binding of Kipling’s classic collection of stories. Octavo, original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth, illustrated with 22 plates by Kipling himself. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Pictorial bookplate of L.A. Shilcof to the pastedown. very nice example.

Just So Stories has “achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted favorite media—the fable and the fairy-story” (Muir, 107). “Kipling’s own witty black-and-white drawings… together with their extensive and ridiculous captions, are one of the chief delights of the book” (Carpenter & Prichard, 285).