Just So Stories.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Item Number: 125970

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., n.d. [ca. 1930].

Later printing of Kipling’s classic collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth with pictorial onlay, with Kipling’s original illustrations and coloured plates by Joseph M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. In near fine condition. Ownership name.

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).