Just so stories for little children... Illustrated by the author
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 249, [2]; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco, t.e.g., gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine, original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back. "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" (Muir, 107). Livingston, 267.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24541
- Title
- Just so stories for little children... Illustrated by the author
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Children's Literature , , ,
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