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1927rif. 977F21London: Macmillan 1927 . First edition. Vellum. Very Good Indeed/Fair. 12.5" by 10". Donald Maxwell. A signed limited edition poetry collection from Rudyard Kipling accompanied by a signed leaf from Kipling in which he has copied out a stanza of his poem 'Epitaphs of War'. A signed limited edition from Kipling with this being one of 500 large paper copies produced.With an additional loosely inserted leaf signed by Kipling and dated September 1925 in which he has written out the penultimate stanza of his 1919 poem 'Epitaphs of War': 'We counterfeited once for your disport/ Men's joy and sorrow: but our day has passed./ We pray you pardon all where we fell short/ Seeing we were your servants to this last'An anthology of twelve poems by Rudyard Kipling collected together by him from a selection of his poetical collections.Including 'Harp Song of the Dane Women' From 'Puck of Pook's Hill' 'The Liner She's a Lady' from 'The Seven Seas' 'Song of the Red War-Boat' from 'Rewards and Fairies' and more.Illustrated with twelve mounted colour plates and further vignettes by Donald Maxwell.Collated complete. In the publisher's original quarter vellum binding with unclipped dust wrapper and cloth covered slip case. Externally vibrant with back strip lightly age toned and stab mark to centre of back strip. Slip case in very good condition with bumping and rubbing to perimeters and cloth age toned. Major losses of dust wrapper at head of front wrap and head and tail of rear wrap lacking entirety of back strip. Major closed tears and folds to front wrap towards fore edge. Dust wrapper age toned. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Macmillan hardcover
rif. 001451Wiltshire: Books Illustrated Limited / Art of the Imagination 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Lute Vink. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 20 COPIES WORLDWIDE This copy is No. 5. --- DESCRIPTION: Small square 4to containing 18 loose-leaf full-colour plates reproduced from the original oil paintings by Lute Vink. Includes the original signed title page. Every individual art plate is protected by its original tissue guard with each individual plate also hand-signed by Lute Vink. These beautiful illustrations were created for the companion deluxe book edition. --- PRESENTATION: Housed in the original publisher's green cloth-covered clamshell presentation box. The box is beautifully lined with deep burgundy felt featuring bright gilt titles to the spine and a striking gilt tiger motif on the front board. --- CONDITION: Near Fine / Fine. The presentation box is in near-fine condition. All 18 plates and the signed title page are in fine condition. A superb copy. --- ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lute Vink is a celebrated Dutch-born South African wildlife artist known for his breathtakingly hyper-realistic style. He was a finalist for the prestigious BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year in 2013. Very scarce. Note: We also have the companion deluxe leather-bound book edition available for sale please view our other listings. Books Illustrated Limited / Art of the Imagination hardcover
1919rif. 121882London: Hodder and Stoughton 1919. First trade edition of the Inclusive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Octavo three volumes original publisher's full vellum gilt titles to the spine gilt ruling to the front and rear panels top edge gilt titles in red and black. In near fine condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1919rif. 54119London: Hodder & Stoughton 1919. First edition. Three volumes. Number 41 of only 100 copies SIGNED BY KIPLING IN EACH OF THE THREE VOLUMES. 8vo full gilt-stamped vellum top edges gilt rest untrimmed. Very good to near fine with covers lightly soiled spine on volume one a little darkened a bit of rubbing to head of spine on volume two small light red stain to front board of volume three and with boards on volume three a bit splayed. Hodder & Stoughton unknown
1895rif. 15929London: Macmillan and Co 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good bound in original publisher blue cloth with gilt titles on spines gilt emblems on front covers. Rubbing a few stains and edge wear to boards. Foxing to interior of both volumes some rubbing to pages owner inscription to second front end page of Second Book. Volume One The Jungle Book appears to have had the spine repaired at some point in its history significant lean to spine as well. Both volumes illustrated throughout. No markings to text. 8vo 7 1/2"h x 5 1/4"w. pagination: Vi 212; 238 two pages of ads at end of volume. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1914rif. 009008London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1914. First English separate edition pamphlet issue. Pamphlet. This is the pamphlet issue of the British first stand-alone publication of Kiplings most famous poem IF- published the first month of the First World War. These are scarce on the market rendering mere survival noteworthy. This copy is in very good condition. The gray card covers remain complete and firmly attached to the contents. There is a contemporary owner name initials and an indecipherable surname inked at the upper right front cover corner just above the double-ruled border. The covers show lightly toned extremities the front cover shows some small spots and moderate soiling and the fore edge corners are lightly bumped. The contents are clean with a touch of trivial spotting. IF- was first published in October 1910 in Rewards and Fairies Kiplings collection of eleven stories and twenty-three poems that was a continuation of the Puck stories first told in 1906s Puck of Pooks Hill. To capitalize on the immediate and immense popularity of IF- the publisher of the American edition of Rewards and Fairies Doubleday Page & Company swiftly followed with a separate publication in 1910. This British edition followed in 1914. There were two issues of this first separate British edition. Macmillan published IF- in July 1914 as both a leaflet and a pamphlet bound in card stock of various shades of gray or brown measuring 16.2 x 11.4 cm lettered and ruled in deep purplish-red. In this pamphlet issue the front cover served as the title page and the text was printed on both sides of two paginated leaves with COPYRIGHT" at the foot of p.4 and advertisements for Kiplings works on the recto and verso of the back cover. Kiplings bibliographer notes three printings of this pamphlet issue the second in September 1914 and third in August 1915 noting that for later issues the year at the bottom of the front cover changes. Although the poem was not collected and published until 1910 inspiration for the poem occurred 15 years earlier in the person of Leander Starr Jameson 1853-1917 leader of the failed Jameson Raid of that year against the Boer Republic of Transvaal that helped precipitate the Second Anglo-Boer War. Despite the fiasco much of the British public treated Jameson as a dashing hero Kipling admired him greatly and in his autobiography Something of Myself Kipling said that "If" was drawn from Jameson's character. The character flaws of the poems muse are an irony. The poems association with the collective anonymized slaughter of the First World War is another. It seems hardly coincidental that this first separate British edition was issued during the first month of the First World War. Indeed a later 1916 edition of the poem was produced in an edition of 30000 as a Xmas and New Year card from the Ladies Buffet staff to the soldiers embarking for the front through Waterloo Station; Kipling waived his royalty cutting the reprint cost. The poems enshrinement of firmness of character and temperament in the face of adversity became inextricably linked to the patriotic offering and sacrifice of so many British sons to the inglorious trenches of the First World War. The association was undoubtedly difficult for Kipling. Fourteen months after this copy of IF- was published Kipling lost his own and only son to the war. John Kipling who had been commissioned in the Irish Guards at the outset of the war had gone to France in August 1915; in September a month after his eighteenth birthday he was reported wounded and missing in the battle of Loos. His body was never found in Kipling's lifetime: the grave was identified in 1992. John's death coincided with the onset of Kipling's suffering from the undiagnosed duodenal ulcer that tormented the last twenty years of his life and that at last killed him. None of the ironies attendant to the poems inspiration and application diminish its beautifully lyrical and enduringly compelling exhortations. References: Richards A269; ODNB Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
1891rif. 013944Macmillan and Co. First edition of Kipling's first novel. Octavo. 339 pages 2 pages ads. Publisher's original embossed red cloth with bright gilt design on front and titles on spine. Fraying to head and heal of spine. Light foxing to end papers. In archival cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1891. Macmillan and Co hardcover
1930rif. 122801New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1930. Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling's poetry. Quarto three volumes original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt gilt motifs to front covers top edges gilt tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one of a "The Thousandth Man" in Kipling's hand specially reproduced for this edition in facsimile. One of 525 copies signed by Kipling on the limitation page this is number 173. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional set of one of the finest editions of Kipling's verse. As a virtuoso in verse Kipling had more than one style at his command" Baugh et al. 1505 from earnest cockney dialect to soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome three-volume collection presents all of Kipling's poetry--including such memorable works as "Mandalay" "Gunga Din" and "If"--set in Baskerville type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I signed in pencil by the artist Francis Dodd. Livingston 545. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
1928rif. 119441New York: McCormick-Patterson 1928. Scarce collection of 1928 issues of Liberty Magazine containing early appearances of many of Kipling's rarest poems. Folio five issues original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes issues featuring the appearance of: Rio January 7 1928 Light and Power January 28 1928 A Drop in Traffic February 18 1928 A City and a Silence March 17 1928 and World By Itself March 31 1928. Founded in 1924 American weekly Liberty Magazine featured contributions from some of the biggest politicians celebrities authors and artists of the 20th-century. Kipling's brother-in-law was an associate editor from the magazine's founding through his death on October 17 1939. In fine condition. Each issue is housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. McCormick-Patterson unknown books
rif. 02926London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. One of 500 Copies Signed by W. Heath Robinson ROBINSON W. Heath illustrator. KIPLING Rudyard. A Song of the English. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. London: Hodder & Stoughton n.d. 1909. Edition DeLuxe. Limited to 500 copies this copy being No. 311 numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto 12 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 308 x 252 mm. 65 leaves. Thirty color plates including frontispiece mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text half-page or smaller. Title printed in red and black. Original vellum over boards with front cover pictorially stamped in dark green red and gilt and lettered in gilt and spine pictorially stamped in dark green red and gilt and lettered in gilt and green. Later brown silk ties. Top edge gilt others uncut. A fine copy. "The next important task I undertook was the illustration of an edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of the English to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in the year 1908. It became necessary for me to meet the author and discuss the proposed book with him. For this purpose I travelled down to Burwash where he lived at that time. This was an excursion I shall always remember. I was met at Heathfield and journeyed thence in a motor-car. There were few cars on the road in those days and this in itself was a joyful experience as we drove through the pleasant Sussex lanes. Bateman's the house at Burwash where Rudyard Kipling lived was a fine old building with stone mullioned windows. It was in the midst of wind-blown Sussex country. There was a faint smell of the sea in the air wafted across the few miles of country from the shore where the Coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go. It was a fitting setting in which to find the author of A Song of the English. He met and entertained me with a quiet affability which speedily removed the shyness I felt at first in his presence. Before long I was quite at home with him. His own knowledge of illustration gave him an appreciation of the artist's point of view. While making suggestions he realized that the illustrator must have as free a hand as possible. His sympathetic understanding of my part in the undertaking made me feel that I was consulting with a brother artist. I spent a happy and for me a helpful day. It was a great inspiration for the work I had in hand to be in such close association with the author's interesting personality. I am always glad to remember that he was satisfied with my illustrations to his book." W. Heath Robinson My Line of Life. pp.126-127 "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. Beare 61b. Lewis p. 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 giving the date of publication as 1913. Stewart 151. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 unknown books
rif. 112906Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. Cloth 4 leaves pp. 108 5 leaves. Very good no dust jacket. In grey-green wrappers protected by beautiful timely and authentic red thatch indian cloth binding. Both covers present front loose. Has had some professional restoration. Minor wear to cloth spine. Cover designs were engraved by Brownlow Fforde. Wheeler first published this collection in 1890 shortly after Kipling left India and without his permission. Kipling demanded that the work be destroyed and apparently all but three were of which only one is currently known. Wheeler then published a second edition this one which Kipling also attempted to suppress. The attempt to suppress was not as successful but this edition is still quite scarce. Indian Railway Library No. XIV. Imprint at bottom of page 108: 'Printed at the "Pioneer" Press Allahabad'. A.H. Wheeler & Co. Hardcover
1920rif. 10257Paris, Editions De La Sirène, 1920. 1010 g Grand in-4 broché, couvertures rempliées, [1] fb., 115 pp., [1] f., [2] ffb.. Illustré de 23 compositions en couleurs de Kees Van Dongen dont 18 à pleine page. L'artiste a également composé les ornements et les maquettes de cet ouvrage tiré à 300 exemplaires, celui-ci un des 250 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin de Rives à la forme. Les illustrations ont été coloriées par l'atelier Marty. L'impression a été réalisée par Louis Kaldor. Carteret, Trésor du Bibliophile, 1875 à 1945, IV, 221; Mahé, Bibliographie des livres de luxe, II, 511-512. Quelques feuillets non coupés. Très légère fente et petits défauts sur le dos mais bon exemplaire. . (Catégories : Livres illustrés, Littérature, Contes, )
rif. 149559Rare pamphlet of Kipling's humorous and ironic poem. Duodecimo original wrappers frontispiece of Kipling pictorial initials six pages. In very good condition. Rare with none appearing at auction in the last 100 years. Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Betrothed” 1886 first published in Departmental Ditties and Other Verses exemplifies his early mastery of wit irony and social observation. Written during his years in British India the poem humorously explores masculine indulgence and moral choice through the narrator’s mock-serious decision to favor cigars over marriage parodying Victorian ideals of romance and respectability. Beneath its comic tone “The Betrothed” reveals Kipling’s emerging interest in the conflicts between personal pleasure social convention and the disciplined self—a tension that would later define his broader literary treatment of duty and individualism. unknown
rif. 139448London: Macmillan 1978. Finely bound edition of both volumes of The Jungle Book with an exceptional fore-edge painting. Octavo bound in full morocco by Bayntun Bindery gilt titles to the spine raised bands all edges gilt engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. The Jungle Book is a collection of fables which provide moral instruction by using animals anthropomorphically. Each story begins and ends with a verse and the original publications contain some illustrations created by Rudyard's father John Lockwood Kipling. The inspiration for the book is evident. Kipling was born in India and he spent his childhood there. Interestingly Kipling wrote these stories when he lived in Vermont. The Jungle Book is used to develop the morale of the junior element of the Scouting movement "The Cub Scouts". The name of the head wolf "Akela" has been traditionally given to each Cub Scout pack leader. At least fifteen movies were released based on Kipling's stories beginning with Elephant Boy in 1937. A live-action anticipated version of Jungle Book will be released in October of 2018 by Warner Brothers. The term 'fore-edge painting' can refer to any painted decoration on the fore-edges of the leaves of a book such as was not uncommon in the 15th and early 16th centuries particularly in Italy. The term is most commonly used however for an English technique quite widely practiced in the second half of the 17th century in London and Edinburgh and popularized in the 18th century by John Brindley and in particular Edwards of Halifax whereby the fore-edge of the book very slightly fanned out and then held fast is decorated with painted views or conversation pieces. The edges are then squared up and gilded in the ordinary way so that the painting remains concealed while the book is closed: fan out the edges and it reappears. The technique was practiced by a few other English binders in the late 18th and 19th centuries and a certain number of undoubted examples survive. The majority of extant examples of fore-edge paintings date to the late 19th and early 20th century on reproductions of books originally published in the early 19th century including the present volume. Macmillan hardcover
1928rif. 119441New York: McCormick-Patterson 1928. Scarce collection of 1928 issues of Liberty Magazine containing early appearances of many of Kipling's rarest poems. Folio five issues original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes issues featuring the appearance of: Rio January 7 1928 Light and Power January 28 1928 A Drop in Traffic February 18 1928 A City and a Silence March 17 1928 and World By Itself March 31 1928. Founded in 1924 American weekly Liberty Magazine featured contributions from some of the biggest politicians celebrities authors and artists of the 20th-century. Kipling's brother-in-law was an associate editor from the magazine's founding through his death on October 17 1939. In fine condition. Each issue is housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. McCormick-Patterson unknown
1906rif. 147621906. with 1906 dust jacket London: Macmillan and Co. 1906. 4 pp ads dated "15.8.06". Original red cloth with Ganesha device elephant-and-swastika in gilt with dust jacket. First English Edition published on the same day as the American. This is Kipling's version in prose and verse of the adventures of the mischievous sprite Robin Goodfellow later continued in REWARDS AND FAIRIES. Though the American edition has four Arthur Rackham plates this English one has 20 attractive illustrations by Harold R. Millar. The swastika Indian symbol for peace and continuity appears both on the front cover and on the half-title verso -- once clockwise and once counter-clockwise. This is a fine bright copy -- with atypically no erosion of the gilt on the front cover medallion. because this copy has the very uncommon dust jacket. The list of Kipling titles on the jacket's rear panel is led by TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES "Thirty-second Thousand" -- which is the proper title at the top of the list but is not the earliest state with no mention of which "thousand"; there is a still-later state with PUCK added to the top of the list. The upper corner of the rear flap is clipped which is odd because according to Richards there was no price there. The jacket's condition is very good-plus -- quite complete but with some subtle repair at the top and middle of the spine panel. Quite uncommon with jacket. Richards A205; Stewart 306. Housed in a simple clamshell case. unknown books
1911rif. 020095Bateman's 19 August 1911. Letter. Folds from mailing. Near Fine. Superb handwritten unpublished two-page letter on both sides of a 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded in half so that the writing is not back to back. Written to John Fleming the husband of Kipling's sister Alice "Trix" about Trix's mental health following her mental breakdown after the deaths of their parents which occurred the previous year. In part: "We are just back from a trip abroad and I find the enclosed letter for Trix waiting for me here. It is some time since I have had news and I have not cared to trouble you because I knew that if there was any news to tell you would have written it but I should like to know how Trix is progressing. Mr Macdonald has written me that Trix would like to have the painted fire screen from the dining room at The Gables Kipling's parents' home. I sent the . entrée dishes . to be put with her other things & I sent at the same time an 'Outward Bound' edition which you said you thought she would like to have." SIGNED in full. In the same month this letter was written Kipling wrote "In the Same Boat" a short story about psychological healing which was published in both HARPER'S MAGAZINE and later in the collection of tales A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. With a printed description from Maggs Bros. This was part of a Kipling family archive that came down through Helen MacDonald a great niece of Rudyard Kipling's mother Alice MacDonald. Alice's three sisters were married to Edward Burne Jones Edward Poynter and Alfred Baldwin father of 20th century British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. unknown
1901rif. 021965London: Macmillan and Co. 1901. First British Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Published in the U.S. 16 days prior to the British publication. Bound by Bayntun in full red calf leather with gilt rules on the covers gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt 5" x 7-3/4". Considered to be Kipling's greatest work and the finest novel about the India of the British Empire. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1899rif. 67694Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling KIPLING Rudyard. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1899-1928. Uniform edition. Complete in 25 octavo volumes. Nicely bound in half red levant morocco over red cloth front covers decoratively gilt-stamped with a circular elephant emblem spines decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. A fine set. Contains the following titles: Stalky & Co. 1899. Traffics and Discoveries 1904. Rewards and Fairies 1915. The Day's Work 1916. Diversity of Creatures 1917. Actions and Reactions 1917. Kim 1919. Just So Stories 1919. Puck of Pook's Hill 1919. The Jungle Book 1920. The Second Jungle Book1920. Letters of Travel 1920. Captain Courageous 1922. The Light That Failed 1922. The Naulahka 1922. Soldiers Three 1923. Wee Willie Winkie Under the Deodars 1926. Debits & Credits 1926. From Sea to Sea1927. Land & Sea Tales 1928. Many Intentions 1928. Plain Tales from the Hills 1928. A Book of Words 1928. Life's Handicap 1928. Livingston see p. 292. Martindell 130. HBS 67694. $2000 Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1891rif. 121637London: Macmillan and Co 1891. First edition of Kipling's first novel. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine publisher's gilt emblem to the front panel. In very good condition. Written when Rudyard Kipling was 26 years old The Light That Failed is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard. Most of the novel is set in London but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar an artist and painter who goes blind and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate Maisie. Though it was poorly received by critics the novel has remained in print for over a century. It was also adapted into a play two silent films as well as a drama film. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1909rif. 121674New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First edition of Kipling's thrilling science novella. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine elaborate gilt vignette to the front panel pictorial endpapers illustrated in color by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl tissue-guarded frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1891rif. 002222London: Macmillan & Co. 1891 1891. C. L. DODGSON'S COPY FIRST EDITION 3RD PRINTING. 1 vol. initialed on the title page by Dodgson bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth front inner hinge fine rear inner hinge just starting outer hinges fine head and foot of spine fine internally clean and bright A VERY GOOD COPY. See "Dodgson At Auction" #368 London: Macmillan & Co., 1891 hardcover
rif. 11701 Relié, cartonnage illustré d'édition, tranches en pleine teinte rouge. 31,5 x 25 cm, n.p., 12 planches, textes en regard. London, William Heinemann, 1898 [1897]. Edition originale
rif. 11701 Relié, cartonnage illustré d'édition, tranches en pleine teinte rouge. 31,5 x 25 cm, n.p., 12 planches, textes en regard. London, William Heinemann, 1898 [1897]. Edition originale
rif. 75623London: Macmillan and Co. 1894; 1895. Children's Illustrated LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS first impressions. Two volumes. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.viii; 212; pp.6 238 2. With frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John as well as a frontispiece and a number of full page plates to volume I. Elegantly hand-bound in full dark blue morocco with raised bands to spine gilt titles and decoration inner navy cloth joints marbled endpapers sewn endbands and all edges gilt. Contents generally clean with a few light spots/reading marks exteriors as new. The Jungle Book and its sequel comprise a selection of short stories-the best-known being the three tales centring on the adventures of the abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli. Other popular tales include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' the story of a heroic mongoose and 'Toomai of the Elephants' the tale of a young elephant-handler. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895 unknown
