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London: Macmillan and Co, 1894 & 1895. First editions, in custom slipcase. With the bookplates of famed book collector Arthur Amory Houghton. An excellent set with spine of The Jungle Book slightly leaning, mild toning to pages, bindings with hint of wear to edges and spine tips, front hinge of The Second Jungle Book starting.

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1894 & 1895. A handsomely bound set First English editions in book form: a notably fresh and internally bright set of Kipling's renowned duology, presented here in a handsome morocco binding. The Jungle Book and its sequel are rooted in the folk tales and legends that Kipling absorbed during his childhood in India. The Grolier Children's 100 notes that "the two sets of stories have rarely been united, despite the fact that the later book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that relate closely to those in the first book and that are essential to its emotional rounding-out" (p. 192). The stories of the Jungle Book were originally published in periodicals in 1893 and 1894. The first book edition collects these seven stories, affixes a verse heading to each, and adds seven further poems, all by Kipling. Most of the stories and poems of the Second Jungle Book were similarly published in periodicals: the first book edition collects these eight stories and three poems,… Read More

London: Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1894 & 1895. First edition in book form, first printing of both volumes. First edition in book form, first printing of both volumes. With the tipped in signature of Rudyard Kipling. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full navy blue morocco illustrated and ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards; five raised bands, gilt ruled and illustrated compartments, titles in gilt to the spines. Gilt decorated board edges, inner dentelles triple ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Publisher's original cloth bound in at the rear of each volume. 'The Jungle Book' with an engraved frontispiece by William Henry Drake (complete with tissue guard as issued) and many illustrations throughout the text by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling, William Henry Drake and Paul Frenzeny. 'The Second Jungle Book' with numerous illustrations throughout the text by John Lockwood Kipling and a single page of publisher's adverts at the rear, as… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1894 & 1895. Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle First editions in book form of Kipling's best-known classic of children's literature, attractively bound by the leading British bookbinder Riviere. Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; he was the first English-language writer, and the youngest ever, to receive the prize. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India, The Jungle Book was first published in periodicals in 1893 and 1894. An immediate success on publication, it was reprinted twice in 1894 and twice again the following year. "Kipling followed with The Second Jungle Book (1895), but the two sets of stories have rarely been united, despite the fact that the later book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that relate closely to those in the first book and that are essential to its emotional rounding-out" (Grolier). Two works, octavo (179 x 117 mm). Early 20th-century half vellum by Rivière, smooth… Read More