This edition (ISBN: 9781645940166) is carefully reconstructed from the original edition, which was published in 1902 and was illustrated by Rudyard Kipling, himself. Teacher Russ Hoff has been a football coach for decades and when a female student was so keen to play football she joined his boys’ team last year, he decided it was time girls got a team of. Small 1902 inscription to darkened endpapers. Beautifully written and packed-full of illustrations, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading.
White printing compleatly disappeared on spine. Spine tips/corners rubbed/lightly frayed. Book is very good with quite bright boards and spine. Octavo, original black-and white-stamped pictorial red cloth. First edition, first issue of Kipling’s classic collection of stories, illustrated with 22 plates designed by Kipling himself.
A collection of Kipling's well-known animal stories, including "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That Stamped." With author's illustrations throughout. 2,200.00 Item Number: 95185 London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. 1st issue binding with the white decorative stamping to the cloth famously failed to adhere on the first issue binding, meaning these copies now lack significant portions of it the paint formula was changed for the later issue, which survives intact.
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