Just So Stories

No book-club edition is documented for 1902. The chief reprint traps are Macmillan's own later impressions from the same setting, on which the 1902 title-page date can persist — check the title-page verso for a reprint or impression statement. The second binding state is routinely mis-sold as a later printing when it is in fact a first-impression state, and conversely a flaked copy is sometimes written off as merely damaged. Doubleday, Page reissued the text in 1912 with new pictures by Joseph M. Gleeson (Livingston no. 269), in tan cloth lettered and decorated in brown — an illustrated reissue, not a first. Modern facsimile and print-on-demand issues marketed as "The Original 1902 Edition With Illustrations" are common and are not the 1902 book.