Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling - 1907

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. 1907 hardcover. 249 pages, nice condition, dj has tears, some writing on inside front and back, and former owner has stamped the book with their last name in several places.

This is a scarce first printing of the Second edition, and it was the first template change since the 1902 first printing in the UK. Just So Stories is a collection of stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories illustrate how animals obtained their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. Kipling illustrated the stories himself.