KIPLING, RUDYARD — Just So Stories

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, [c.1940s-60s]. Hardcover. A handsome illustrated edition of Rudyard Kipling's famous collection of twelve stories for a younger reader, starring various beasts such as elephants, whales, leopards, etc. With numerous plates bearing color illustrations by J. M. Gleeson, and black & white drawings scattered through the text by the author. Volume bears 1912 date, but could have been published c.1940s-60s. --- In navy cloth-covered boards, with spine titling in gilt, titling in blind to cover. With color Gleeson illustration of the animals to endpapers. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With inked gift notation to front paste-down, evidence of tape removal to front and rear endpapers and mild wear to cover extremities, else a tightly-bound, bright, unmarked copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (10), 248 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .