Just So Stories
by Kipling, Rudyard
The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs – everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation.With an inspiring written, inspiring introduction by Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus trilogy, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling is one of the twelve wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2008.
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On Apr 3, 2011, feeney said
The original edition (1902) of Rudyard Kipling's yarns for children, JUST SO STORIES, has 12 tales. Some later editions added a 13th ("The Tabu Tale") and might have added a 14th from 1895, THE JUNGLE BOOK, on how the tiger got his stripes. *** Most of the stories are about animals, usually having one part of their anatomy being transformed by outside pressure ( e.g. a young elephant's puffy nose being stretched out to today's dimensions by a crocodile trying to drag the curious youngster for its dinner into "the great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees"). But my favorite is about the domestication by earliest humans of the first wild animals: dog, horse and cat. It is called "The Cat That Walked by Himself." And the free-spirited cat was notable for negotiating, not entirely to his satisfaction, the anarchical terms under which he will consent to live with Man, Woman and Baby "for always and always and always." *** Standing far apart from the animal tales are two inter-twined yarns: "How the First Letter Was Written" and "How The Alphabet Was Made." Rooting the alphabet as we know it in a young cave girl's efforts to send a message home through a stranger speaking a different language but carrying with him an incomprehensible sketch she had drawn, Kipling makes learning the alphabet extra fun for youngsters and adds a bit of spoofing history as well. *** It is easy to imagine that the "O my Best Beloved" to whom Kipling later told the JUST SO STORIES was his oldest child, Vermont-born Josephine ("josie") who died of pneumonia at age six. -OOO-
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Just So Stories : For Little Children
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- 1902
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1902. 4to.Illustrated. 249 pp. Publisher's pictorial maroon cloth with lettering in white to front board & spine. Wear to spine ends & joints with slight loss. Boards slightly marked. Inner hinges split. Spotting to endpapers. Early ink owner's name to first blank. Four leaves previously loose and re-attached that are frayed & damaged at edges.… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Macmillan, 1902. A first edition, first printing published by Macmillan in 1902. A very good copy with one neat name and bookplate to the front pastedown - off-setting to the front endpaper. Some rubbing to the edges and to the corners. Small loss to the edge of the spine. Spine full of colour. The famous collection of stories… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First Edition, Third Printing. Very Good. First edition, third printing, published just two months after the first printing. A fantastic association copy, signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page and inscribed to "Janet Aitken from her obliged and obedient servant the author Jul. 1911," beneath which Kipling has struck through his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Just So Stories: The Original 1902 Edition With Illustrations by Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1930. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, red cloth boards with large paper label on front, gilt text on front and spine. Exterior shows spotting and soiling along with edge and corner wear, top edge of spine has small… Read more about this item Item Price
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USA: Doubleday, 1912. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Joseph Gleeson. 1st US Edition 1912 of the edition with new colour illustrations by Joseph Gleeson and with the original illustrations by Kipling. Correct 1sty edition with all points present. Book is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed in places.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1902. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Kipling, Rudyard. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Red and black and white pictorial cloth with white titles. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Colour to titles and decorations on spine has worn away and spine is browned. A few marks… Read more about this item Item Price
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Just So Stories - For Little Children
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London: MacMillan & Co., Limited 1902. Large 8vo.Illustrated. [vi]., 249 pp. Illustrated by the author. Bound in a recent dark red morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettered spine and raised bands. Top edge gilt. Some light spotting throughout. Illustrated in black and white by the author. Beautifully rebound and increasingly hard to find. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First Edition.… Read more about this item Item Price
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UK: Macmillan, 1902. First Edition 5th or later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. R Kipling. 5th Imp of the 1st Edition 1914. In the same format as the 1st edition. A collection of Kipling's well-known animal stories, including "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Just So Stories
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Fair with no dust jacket; Covers worn, one inch missing from head of spine. 1952. Later Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial hardcover. Many vibrant illustrations by Nicolas (surname Mordvinoff) who won the 1952 Caldecott medal for his collaboration with William Lipkind on "Finders Keepers". ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 84 pages . Item Price
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Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1902. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Kipling, Rudyard. Very good condition with no wrapper. Red and black and white pictorial cloth with white titles. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Title to spine and border edges rubbed off. Name in pencil to front fly-leaf. Foxing to endpapers, crease to corner… Read more about this item Item Price
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Just So Stories: For Little Children 1902
by Rudyard Kipling
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1902. Large 8vo.Illustrated. 249 pp. Publisher's pictorial maroon cloth with lettering in white to front board & spine. Wear to spine ends & corners, boards slightly marked. Inner hinges slightly split, but all still together. Spotting to endpapers and fore-edge. Early ink owner's name to first blank. With numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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UK: Macmillan, 1910. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rudyard Kipling. Reprint 1910 of the Uniform edition printed in 1903. Fully illustrated by the author. Book is very good+ and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.Ref16288
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This well loved 1902 First Edition contains some markings, age spots and a few words written inside by child owner (all shown in photos) The boards are worn, the spine has separation from the cloth of the underlying boards. there's bumping and some wear on the upper and lower spine. Front and back cover is acceptable with aging. (all photos… Read more about this item Item Price
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Just So Stories: For Little Children 1902
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Just So Stories - For Little Children
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London: MacMillan & Co., Limited 1902. 8vo.Illustrated. [vi], 249 pp. Original red cloth binding with black and white decoration. Some sunning to the spine with wear to the ends and minor marks to the boards. Binding firm with light scattered spotting. Some staining to the bottom edge particularly the corner with stain to the front endpaper.Illustrated by the author in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Just So Stories: The Original 1902 Edition With Illustrations by Rudyard Kipling
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Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
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- 1987
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London: Puffin Books, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Michael foreman. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Item Price
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