Description: Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book 1894 & The Second Jungle Book 1895 1st UK VG+ First UK Editions with title pages dated "The Jungle Book"-(1894) & "The Second Jungle Book"-(1895). Rudyard Kipling's THE JUNGLE BOOK (London First Edition 1894) and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK (London First Edition 1895). Published by London: Macmillian and Co. Jungle book [x] [1-212 pp.]; Second Jungle book [viii] [1-238 pp.] [2 pages ads]. Original beautiful blue cloth with illustration of gilt elephants on Jungle Book front cover. Spine has a gilt snake and mongoose with gilt lettering. The frontispiece (with tissue guard) and forty-two illustrations (nineteen full-page) was illustrated by J.L. Kipling, and W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. Second Jungle Book stories has a gilt illustration of cobra wrapped around a sword. Spine has an illustration of a snake wrapped around a woman. The frontispiece (with tissue guard) and forty-two illustrations (nineteen full-page). All book edges in gilt. Hardcover. Both books are sold together and housed in a blue cloth slipcase. The frontispiece (with tissue guard) and forty-two illustrations (nineteen full-page). Book condition: Very Good An Exquisite Rudyard set of KIPLING-FIRST EDITIONS. A bright and attractive copy. Cover and spine edges bumped. Text is clean and in excellent condition. FEP and REP browned. Binding is tight. Text is clean without foxing. No inscriptions. All illustrations are present. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of fourteen short stories. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India and written while in Vermont. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India. The book is a classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The Second Jungle Book was a sequel to The Jungle Book. It features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, The 1994 film The Jungle Book used it as a source. Kipling was the first English-language writer, and the youngest ever, to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Classic books in mint condition.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Subject: Children's
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1894
Language: English
Illustrator: J.L. Kipling, and W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Topic: Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Character Family: Mowgli
