Author:Frank Ver Beck
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Frank Ver Beck, sometimes signed 'Verbeck' (all caps); sometimes credited as Verbeck or VerBeck, at least in secondary sources.
- Just So Stories
Ver Beck was the original illustrator of several Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; that is, the illustrator of the first published version.
Certainly Ver Beck illustrated "Rudyard Kipling's New Animal Stories" (per the April 1900 magazine cover) published in The Ladies Home Journal April to June 1900 and he may have illustrated all of those published in that US monthly magazine 1900 to 1902.
Those are 7 of the 12 stories collected in 1902, here numbered as printed in 1902. See the 1st US ed. Contents (US because that record gives contents with page numbers in sequence).
- LHJ 1901-10, Ver Beck
- LHJ 1900-04, Ver Beck (as first of three Rudyard Kipling's New Animal Stories)
- LHJ 1900-06, Ver Beck
- LHJ 1900-05, Ver Beck
- LHJ 1901-12, ?
- LHJ 1902-07, ?
- LHJ 1902-10, ?
The first three were first published 1897-98 with illustrations by Oliver Herford; #9 (How the Alphabet Was Made) in the collection, illus. by Kipling; and #10 in Pearson's Magazine 1902-08, illus. by Lawson Wood.
As of 2016-07-24 the database includes early publications of Just So Stories only as located in online e-copies of the magazines. That now includes none of the LHJ publications, but stories #4 and #5 with illustrations by Ver Beck because those were reprinted by British monthlies.