Rudyard Kipling; Feodor Rojankovsky (illus.)
Four Famous Just So Stories, 1942
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co.
433
$ 950.00
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Four octavo vols. Each (14)ff. This collection of some of Kipling's best-known, if problematic, tales—How the Leopard Got His Spots; How the Camel Got His Hump; How the Rhinoceros Got...
Four octavo vols. Each (14)ff. This collection of some of Kipling's best-known, if problematic, tales—How the Leopard Got His Spots; How the Camel Got His Hump; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and The Elephant's Child—here receive playful illustrations from Rojankovsky. Throughout the 1940s, Rojankovsky, a Russian immigrant, lent his artistic talents to the juvenile publications issued by Little Golden Books, and in 1956 he won the Caldecott Medal for U. S. picture book illustration for his work on Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff. These volumes are all housed in a large publisher's envelope innovatively designed so that the first flap opens to a pop-up jungle scene. Unfortunate depictions of people of color appear throughout the set. Books all bound in pictorial boards backed in cloth, with mild overall rubbing, a few small closed tears, and trace soiling. Three books with gift inscriptions on title page. Envelope generally creased and rubbed, with some toning and loss to paper; pop-up with some adhesive repairs and cloth-tape strengthening.
