Just So Stories, Rewards and Fairies, & Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited 1926-1929, London, 1926

Three smart later edition of this charming works from Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations. Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. This set contains: Just So Stories for Little Children, 1926. Illustrated with twenty-one plates. Collated complete. A classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works, containing a collection of stories that illustrate how animals acquired their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. Illustrated by the author. Rewards and Fairies, 1928. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. A series of historical fantasy short stories set in historical times and a linking contemporary narrative about Dan and Una, two children living in the Weald of Sussex who encounter Puck. Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator. Kim, 1929. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. Set after the Second Anglo-Afghan War, this novel follows Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late nineteenth century, Kim lives by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. Illustrated by his father John Lockwood Kipling, an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine with light loss to the head of the spine of Kim. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 934T18

Bibliographic Details

Title: Just So Stories, Rewards and Fairies, & Kim
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1926-1929, London
Publication Date: 1926
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Rudyard Kipling; Charles E. Brock; J. Lockwood Kipling
Condition: Very Good
Book Type: book