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1902 Just So Stories
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition, second impression, published the month after the first impression.
A collection of children's short stories, a classic of children's literature. The stories explain 'just so' how animals obtained their own distinctive features.
Including 'How the Camel got his Hump', 'How the Leopard got his Spots', 'The Beginning of the Armadilloes', 'How the Alphabet was Made', and more.
Illustrated with twenty-two plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
Written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling, a novelist best known for his influential 'The Jungle Book'.
One page of adverts to the rear.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light rubbing and marks to the cloth, including a dampstain to the tail of the front board, to the rear joint and tail of the rear board, and to the spine. Tear to the rear joint. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities has resulted in a small amount of loss. Spine is faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Rear hinge is tender. Spots to the endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
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