Just So Stories by KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936), [GLEESON, James M., illustrator]

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1925. [Children's classic] INSCRIBED COPY. Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.249. With 22 full page black and white illustrations as well as additional chapter introductory initials and illustrative letters by the author, and twelve full colour plates by Gleeson. Publisher's decorative red cloth boards with spine and upper panel of the elusive jacket remaining. Dated SIGNED inscription to title page, autographed aboard the Canadian Pacific Line steamship SS Duchess of Bedford. No signs of spotting, a little light handling, thus some small tears to the margins of two preliminary leaves. Boards in very good condition. Remaining dust-jacket is chipped, worn, with some creases. Very Good. Fine collection of Kipling's well-known animal stories, including "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That Stamped." Stewart [260]. BMC No.1 [1984]; 'Edwardian Children's Books'.