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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1902

Born in 1865 in Mumbai to an artistic family, Rudyard Kipling was one of the most celebrated poets and authors of his time and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1907. Good copies of our favourite Kipling story books can fetch mighty prices, as illustrated by the sale of two first editions of The Jungle Book, 1894, and The Second Jungle Book, 1895, sold at Sotheby’s in December 2016 for £5,625, the pair. For novice collectors, Kipling’s books can be found at a much more a ordable level too – this first edition of the Just So Stories, published some seven years later, sold for £120 at book specialists, Forum Auctions. The book was described as ‘an excellent example overall’, although there was some light spotting on the pages and the spine was a little sunned.