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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 grey/green coated endpapers.
NO.OF PAGES: [2, blank], vi, [2, contents], 212 pages. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 42 text illustrations (19 full-page) by J L Kipling, W H Drake, and P Frenzeny. Bookplate of J Linton Palmer to front pastedown.
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 grey/green coated endpapers.
NO.OF PAGES: [2, blank], [6], 238 pages [2, publisher's advertisements]. 39 text illustrations by J Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E., including head- and tail-piece vignettes and historiated initials. Ownership inscription of T B W Bishop on the endpaper.
SIZE:
Height: 19 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 2.2 cm

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, and one of the most popular British authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He penned a wide variety of works, from poems and 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 the age of 42. He remains the youngest Nobel laureate in literature.

CONDITION:
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There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.

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