22 plates by the author, illustrated drop-cap initials, line drawings in the text. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Original red cloth, lettering and pictorial decoration on spine and boards in black and white. Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature, 57. Unusually for jacket designs of this period, the jacket of Just So Stories reproduces an image different from that of the blocking on the boards. The first, on which the white blocking failed to adhere, was superseded by this more stably blocked one, on which the white decoration remained intact. The first impression exists in two issues of the binding. Just So Stories was the only one of Kipling's books that he illustrated himself.įirst edition, first impression, second state binding, of Kipling's famous collection of twelve stories and twelve poems, including 'How the Camel Got His Hump' and 'How the Leopard Got His Spots'. The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the cover of the book. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase First edition. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding. The rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and a few archival tape reinforcements on the inside of the spine portion of the jacket. Edward Newton copy, with his bookplate, along with the armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase.

Tall 8vo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket.

Just so stories book