KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories, London, 1902, 4to, 22 plates by the author, original red pictorial cloth. FIRST EDITION. With 6 other books by the same author, all FIRST EDITIONS. (7)

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936).  Just So Stories. For Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. 4to (230 x 180mm). Half title, initials, 22 plates by the author including one map printed in red and black, illustrations, initials, (pink stain to p.92 not affecting text, some very light mainly marginal staining, a few leaves creased at corners). Original red pictorial cloth (corners lightly rubbed, a little faded, without the exceptionally scarce dust-jacket). Provenance: Claud Alexander, Jan. 1903 (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of the only book illustrated by the author. Three of the stories had previously appeared in serial form in the American Ladies Home Journal from April to June 1900 (see Muir). Grolier 57; Livingston 267; Muir English Children's Books pp.159-160; Osborne Collection pp.362-363; Richards A181; Stewart 260. With 6 other books by the same author, namely Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (London, 1892, 8vo, original buckram, with an old lot sticker pasted onto the upper cover), Captains Courageous (London, 1897, 8vo, illustrations by I. W. Taber, fine original blue pictorial cloth gilt), The Five Nations (London, 1903, 8vo, original red buckram), Sea and Sussex (London, 1926, 4to, coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with slight loss), Songs of the Sea (London, 1927, 4to, coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with very slight loss) and Thy Servant a Dog Told by Boots (London, 1930, small 4to, illustrations by George Loraine Stampa, original red pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, jacket torn with slight loss), all FIRST EDITIONS. (7)