• Publication: Just So Stories for Little ChildrenPublication Record # 637813
• Author: Rudyard Kipling
• Date: 1902-00-00
• Publisher: George N. Morang
• 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:

  Canada edition
  • WorldCat library records (print book, OCLC 10909721, and microform copies) report -- 249 pp; 25 cm (same as 1st US ed.) -- CIHM/ICMH microfiche series, no. 77321 (film 1995, digital master 2002)
  • Reviewed The Globe (Toronto) 1902-10-15 p5 (positive, no price). Probably published 1902-09-30 (same as 1st US ed.) or early October.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- title page dated 1902, inscribed by Kipling apparently, in verse -- Contents, unnumbered, and text, p[1]-249, evidently identical to 1st US ed. (1st, 3rd, 5th printings viewed at HathiTrust)
  • Front cover apparently matches that of 1st US ed., 3rd and 5th printings Dec 1902 and Dec 1903 (all three viewed at HathiTrust, whose copy of 1st printing lacks original cover). Cover illustration is 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:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 890951903 470559990 10909721

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