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TITLE: The Jungle Book
AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1894
EDITION: First
BINDING: Original bright blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine and lettered in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Original dark gray/green coated endpapers.
NO.OF PAGES: [2, blank], vi, [2, contents], 212 pp. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and forty-two text illustrations (nineteen full-page)by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny.
SIZE:
Height: 19 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 2.2 cm

TITLE: The Second Jungle Book
AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1895
EDITION: First
BINDING: Original bright blue cloth decoratively ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine and lettered in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Original dark gray/green coated endpapers.
NO.OF PAGES: [2, blank], [6], 238, [2,publisher's advertisements] pp. Thirty-nine text illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. , including head- and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials.
SIZE:
Height: 19 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 2.2 cm

THIS BOOK COMES ALONG WITH A SIGNED LETTER BY KIPLING ON HIS LETTERHEAD TO MONSIEUR CHIGOLINI DATED 25/28

Original Autograph Letter Signed by Rudyard Kipling. Sussex:5" x 3 1/2", June 25/28. Original autograph letter signed by the author Rudyard Kipling, on printed stationery from Bateman???s, Burwash, Sussex. The letter reads in full: "Dear Monsieur Chigolini, Accept our best congratulations on the news that you send us today as to your restoration by Sir Herbert Barker. I hope there was no truths in the statement of this journal that you sent, that you had contemplated retirement, on account of your leg. If that were so, Sir Herbert has rendered a definite service to civilization: We are at last enjoying real summer weather, and on our farm we are all occupied with the hay harvest. Our best wishes to you all. Most sincerely, Rudyard Kipling."

The Jungle Book is a "collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1894. The Second Jungle Book, published in 1895, contains stories linked by poems. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli, an Indian boy who is raised by wolves from infancy and who learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and, more fancifully, the justice and natural order of life in the jungle. Among the animals whose tales are related in the work are Akela the wolf; Baloo the brown bear; Shere Khan, the boastful Bengal tiger who is Mowgli's enemy; Kaa the python; Bagheera the panther; and Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature).

Rudyard Kipling was an extraordinary writer of narrative. Kipling was one of the most popular British authors of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He penned a wide variety of works, from poems to short stories to novels. His children???s books, including The Jungle Book, which he apparently wrote for his daughter, are regarded as classics.

Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, at age 42. He remains the youngest Nobel laureate in literature.