Description
First edition, first issue of Just So Stories: For Little Children by Rudyard Kipling.
Octavo, [6], 249pp, [3]. Full red morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands with gilt embellishments. Publisher’s original illustrated cloth cover bound in at rear. The first edition, first issue, with printer’s mark on page “251.” Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Complete with 22 plates and numerous text illustrations by Kipling. (Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature, 57) (Richards A181) Binding for Asprey of London. A fine example.
