Just So Stories for Little Children
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Overview:
- Title: Just So Stories for Little Children
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Year: 1902
- Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
- Price: $1.20
- Pages: 249
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Just So Stories for Little Children
- Notes:
- 1st US ed., 1st printing First of four 1902 impressions, from history in 5th impression December 1903 (viewed at HathiTrust), which also states September 1902
- Library of Congress (LCCN) reports a copy inscribed by Kipling -- plates; 25 cm
- Price and date from publisher notice "September Plans" NY Times 1902-09-13 pBR9, as "Ready September 30th, $1.20 net"; both confirmed in notice "A Good September" -10-04 pBR17 (with brief review pBR1)
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy, without original cover (alongside copies of the 3rd and 5th printings, with original covers) Copyright page -- 1902 by Kipling -- details on all 12 stories, (c) 1897 to 1902, some by magazine publishers -- "Published September, 1902" Stories span p[1]-247, with some verses between stories and finally p249 -- plates included in the pagination and so numbered; for instance, long caption p92 and b/w illustration p93 (described below)
- Cover assumed identical to 3rd and 5th printings (Dec 1902, Dec 1903) and Canada edition (G. N. Morang, 1902), all viewed at HathiTrust, with identical covers. Their cover illustration matches one for "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" that shows Old Man Kangaroo with his new hind legs, pursued by Yellow-Dog Dingo (page 93).