• Publication: Just So Stories for Little ChildrenPublication Record # 577353
• Author: Rudyard Kipling
• Date: 1902-09-30
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
• Price:
  $1.20^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 249
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Just So Stories for Little Children (1902) • by Rudyard Kipling
• Notes:

  • 1st US ed., 1st printing First of four 1902 impressions, from history in 5th impression December 1903 (viewed at HathiTrust), which also states September 1902
  • Library of Congress (LCCN) reports a copy inscribed by Kipling -- plates; 25 cm
  • Price and date from publisher notice "September Plans" NY Times 1902-09-13 pBR9, as "Ready September 30th, $1.20 net"; both confirmed in notice "A Good September" -10-04 pBR17 (with brief review pBR1)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy, without original cover (alongside copies of the 3rd and 5th printings, with original covers) Copyright page -- 1902 by Kipling -- details on all 12 stories, (c) 1897 to 1902, some by magazine publishers -- "Published September, 1902" Stories span p[1]-247, with some verses between stories and finally p249 -- plates included in the pagination and so numbered; for instance, long caption p92 and b/w illustration p93 (described below)
  • Cover assumed identical to 3rd and 5th printings (Dec 1902, Dec 1903) and Canada edition (G. N. Morang, 1902), all viewed at HathiTrust, with identical covers. Their cover illustration matches one for "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" that shows Old Man Kangaroo with his new hind legs, pursued by Yellow-Dog Dingo (page 93).
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 02-23595
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1705274

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Just So Stories for Little Children • (1902) • interior artwork by Rudyard Kipling
• 1 • How the Whale Got His Throat • [Just So Stories] • (1897) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 15 • How the Camel Got His Hump • [Just So Stories] • (1898) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 29 • How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin • [Just So Stories] • (1898) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 43 • How the Leopard Got His Spots • [Just So Stories] • (1901) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 63 • The Elephant's Child • [Just So Stories] • (1900) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 85 • The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo • [Just So Stories] • (1900) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 101 • The Beginning of the Armadillos • [Just So Stories] • (1900) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 123 • How the First Letter Was Written • [Just So Stories] • (1901) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 145 • How the Alphabet Was Made • [Just So Stories] • (1902) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 171 • The Crab That Played with the Sea • juvenile • [Just So Stories] • (1902) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 197 • The Cat That Walked by Himself • [Just So Stories] • (1902) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 225 • The Butterfly That Stamped • [Just So Stories] • (1902) • short story by Rudyard Kipling