Buy this book on-line BATCHELOR, JOHN: : How the Just So Stories Were Made - The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little ChildrenUS/UK.YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS,NEW HAVEN AND LONDON,2021.. ISBN 9780300237184.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.Though with a different ISBN internally,and a Library of Congress Control Number,the book was printed in Padstow, Cornwall,and has a Blackwell b/w adhesive barcode+price label pasted over US printed price - as when bought from them as new.Laid in loose, b/w illustrated BLACKWELL'S advertisement card bookmark.] NMIN/NMINT.Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and no price removal from dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around grey background with overlaid multi-colour illustrated dw/dj panels,white outlined black lettered book title (Just So Stories) other letters white,and capitalised, red-lettered author name to front,white-lettered title with red-outlined capitalised 'Just So Stories' within whole title,red capitalised author name,rear panel multi-colour illustration from front with critics' reviews in b/w letteres to red background - all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread other than my own collation and then stored.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a red+ silver(?) striped headband,and immaculate pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii -xiipp+1-224pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,author's Preface and Acknowledgements,13 chapters and an Epilogue, profuse b/w illustrations by Kipling, interspersed throughout the text and the book, Endnotes,a select bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with b/w portrait photograph of Kipling with his eldest child and daughter Josephine to its verso,recto of contents list/ table and 4pp blanks at the rear.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults.
A richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic.
For over a century,Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' - including such celebrated tales as 'How the Leopard got his Spots' and 'The Elephant's Child' - have delighted readers across the world.But what makes the stories so timeless and engaging,and what prpmpted Kipling to create them?
John Batchelor illuminates the artistry with which Kipling crafted this unusual volume. Uniquely,Kipling created all the illustrations and design features himself.Why did control matter so much in this case? batchelor takes each tale as an entry point into an aspect of the writer's life and work and reveals the tragedy that shadows much of the text: the death of Kipling's 'Best Beloved' first child,his daughter Josephine.
Some of the stories are meditations on that terrible loss.Others pose playful challenges to late Victorian and Edwardian assumptions by asking how the world and its animals became 'just so'.Kipling drew freely on biblical and other creation myths,as well as fantastical tales of animal development and man's discovery of literacy,to question the preconceptions of his time.
Beautifully illustrated with kipling's own drawings,images made by his father and family photographs,'How the Just so Stories Were Made' sheds new light on a much-loved classic and one of Kipling's best known works.
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