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KIPLING, Rudyard.

The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book.

Stock Code
104990
London, Macmillan, 1894
£2,875

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 Encyclopaedia of Literature).

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Description

First editions, first impressions; 2 vols, 8vo; illustrated throughout, scattered light foxing; publisher's blue cloth, devices to boards, and titles to spines gilt, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers, spines bumped, corners a little rubbed, overall a very good set; vi, [2], 212; [vi], 238, [2, ads]pp.

Bibliography

Livingston 104 & 116.

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