New Illustrated Just So Stories

Doubleday and Company / Doubleday Books for Young Readers / Printed by Western Publishing, Garden City, NY. c1952 / Not Dated / no ISBN / no zip codes- thus pre-1963. Hardcover. No Editions or Printings noted. Library binding (durable cloth binding at inner hinges at spine). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; bumped tail with small tear in paper at tail. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); missing small piece at tail and bottom of front panel; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; small tears to paper surface at title on front panel. Pictorial boards and spine with matching DJ; black lettering on spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. 84 pp 4to. This book contains all 12 of the wonderful animal fables of Rudyard Kipling's writings in 1902. They humorously and vividly recount how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got its spots, and how the armadillo came to be, back in the beginning - "when the world was to new and all." This book boasts a wealth of colors, superb pictures that charm and enchant. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. No International Sales. Priority shipping will require additional postage.…