[BINDING]. KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. NY & L: Mayflower Books & Macmillan, [1980]. 20th-century gray crushed levant and tan pigskin, covers with sculptural elephant and fish. Facsimile of the 1913 edition.
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[BINDING]. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories for Little Children. Joseph M. GLEESON, illustrator. New York & London: Mayflower Books & Macmillan, [1980].
8vo (228 x 170 mm). Numerous illustrations by Kipling, numerous color plates by Gleeson. 20th-century gray crushed levant and tan pigskin, upper cover with sculptural elephant, lower cover with sculptural fish, black morocco onlays to lower cover and spine in a leopard pattern, silver-lettered on spine, marbled edges, signed by Chris Clain Takacs 1989; folding case.
Facsimile of the 1913 edition of Kipling’s best-known work.
This lot is located in Chicago.
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