KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories, London, 1902, 4to, illustrations by the author, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With c.50 other books, a few inscribed by Kipling to Stanley Baldwin. (c.50)

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936).  Just So Stories For Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. 4to (230 x 175mm). Half title, 22 plates, illustrations and initials by the author (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original red pictorial cloth (lightly stained and rubbed, inner hinges weak, spine a little faded). Provenance: Phyllis Neilson Terry, October 15, 1902 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the binding blocked in white. Stewart 260. With c.50 other books by, or relating to, the same author including H. Staunton's The Chess Tournament. A Collection of the Games Played at this Celebrated Assemblage (London, 1852, 8vo, diagrams, contemporary half calf, INSCRIBED BY KIPLING, "Stan from Rud: Dec 31, 1919" [i.e. inscribed by Kipling to Stanley Baldwin who was a first cousin of the poet's]), Rudyard Kipling's The Brushwood Boy (London, 1907, 8vo, coloured plates by F. H. Townsend, original cloth), Verse. Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 (London, 1919, 3 vols., large 8vo, original buckram gilt, SIGNED BY KIPLING on the half title of the first vol. and INSCRIBED BY KIPLING, "Stan from his cousin, New Year, 1919-20"), Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (London, 1923, 4to, original cloth), Harry Stillwell Edwards' Eneas Africanus (Macon, Georgia, 1924, square 8vo, original wrappers, INSCRIBED BY KIPLING in pencil, "Read every word of this and study the map, R."), Horati Carminum Libri IV (London, "Impensis Petr. Davies", 1926, large 8vo, coloured illustrations, original decorated cloth, INSCRIBED BY KIPLING, "Stan from Rud. Dec. 1926") and Sea and Sussex (London, 1926, 4to, mounted coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original cloth gilt). Please note that only a very small part of the lot is illustrated. (c.50)