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Price: US$141.36 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sm4to, 24cm, first Canadian edition, 249p., plus 22 plates and many text illustrations, in variant cream cloth binding with titles and illustrations on the spine and upper cover stamped in black, slightly dust worn but a very good to fine sound copy (lt) Stewart 261. Notes binding is usually brown/orange cloth. First published in London, by Macmillan in 1902. A rare Canadian edition.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1902.
Price: US$13500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 printed name and signed below it. Then three years old, aristocrat and socialite Janet Gladys Aitken (later Campbell, Montagu, and Kidd), was the daughter of Kipling's close friend Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook was a highly influential Canadian-British press magnate and politician and his daughter Janet grew up with her family entertaining powerful and influential figures such as Kipling, Sir Winston Churchill, and David Lloyd George at their family home. Beaverbrook met Kipling in 1910 after he relocated his family to Britain from Canada; Kipling advised Beaverbrook on the purchase of Cherkely Court, his Surrey mansion and later even became godfather to Beaverbrook's youngest son, Peter. In her autobiography, Janet recalls Kipling, whom as a child she nicknamed "Mr Sad": "He had a drooping moustache and never seemed to smile.I felt a bit sorry for him but never said so because he never seemed to notice I was there.He would stand staring soulfully at us as we clattered past.I was always pleased to see him". Ultimately a rift developed between Beaverbrook and Kipling, who endorsed Irish Home Rule, and despite the efforts of Janet and Kipling's daughter Elsie, the two never reconciled. Bound in publisher's original red pictorial cloth stamped in black and white. Very Good with fading to spine and bottom of rear cover, extremities a little worn and frayed, front hinge tender and rear hinge partly cracked but holding, contents mildly foxed throughout; with Beaverbrook's family bookplate to the front pastedown. Signed copies of this title are rare, especially those with such a close association and inscribed; just six other inscribed copies are known. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise case.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 249p quarto, illustrated. A fine bright copy in a very good dust jacket. The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the covers of the book. Just So Stories was Kipling's only self illustrated book. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding; armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau with the bookplate of A. Edward Newton above it on the front paste down. The extremely rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and with a few archival tape reinforcements o the inside of the spine. Preserved in a custom cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. The A. Edward Newton copy, with his bookplate, along with the armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau. The rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and a few archival tape reinforcements on the inside of the spine portion of the jacket. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase. The A. Edward Newton copy, with his bookplate, along with the armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau. The rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and a few archival tape reinforcements on the inside of the spine portion of the jacket. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase First edition. Richards A181. The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the cover of the book. Just So Stories was the only one of Kipling's books that he illustrated himself.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$36000.00 + shipping
Description: Rudyard Kipling. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. Kipling, Rudyard. JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. Signed. Illustrated by the Author. Toronto: George S. Morang & Co., Limited. 1902. Unique Copy. First Canadian Edition. Sm. 4to. 249p. With 22 plates & many in-text illustrations. Cream cloth covered boards with titles & illustrations on the spine & upper cover stamped in black. An extraordinary example with three key manuscript highlights tipped-in: 1 - Opposite page 141, Kipling on a piece of club size stationery has written out, in fact decoded the runes of Taffimai in 2 columns of 18 lines with the added "This is the identical tusk-on-uitch the tale of Taffimai ouas ritten. Etched by the author. / See Page 141 / Just So Stories / Double Day Page Edn 1902." 2 - Tipped opposite page 197, on a piece of club size stationery, Kipling has deciphered the runes on the Mutton Bone illustrated in the story: The Cat That Walked By Himself. Inscribed: "On the mutton bone / page 197. Just So Stories". Two columns of decoding followed by: " I Rudyard Kipling drew this but because there was no mutton bone in the house I faked the anatomy from memory. R.K." 3 - One page als [true copy neatly written & signed in blue fountain pen] on the letterhead of the Canadian Copper Company, Sussex, dated Nov. 30th 1912, addressed to: David H. Brown esq. " Dear Sir / Many thanks for your amusing letter of the 12th. I am sorry that any of my handicraft should have disturbed your dinner. I should imagine it would be quite hopeless to find one in the small drawing what the runes meant but I have looked up the original pictures and found that on the cross bar of the H, I put myself on record as having also written all the plays ascribed to Mrs. Gallop. I hope now that you and your friends will be able to return to their respective vocations. / Yours very sincerely / Rudyard Kipling". An extremely good example showing light use. [Stewart 261. Notes binding is usually brown/orange cloth]. First published in London, by Macmillan in 1902 this is the uncommon Canadian edition of Kipling's most famous collection of twelve animal stories & twelve poems, including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots," "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," & "The Butterfly That Stamped." "Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" (Muir, 107). Stewart [260]. BMC No.1 [1984]; 'Edwardian Children's Books'. (30820).
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada