1895 Rare First Edition - The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
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Author: Rudyard Kipling.
Title: The Second Jungle Book.
Publisher: London and New York, Macmillan and Co, 1895. First edition, first printing.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: 238-2 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good to very good decorated full cloth binding with the great gilt cobra on the cover (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, soiled and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown, name of a previous owner on the upper margin of the second blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling.
Estimate: (USD 300 - USD 450)
The book: Rare and attractive first edition of The Second Jungle Book -- a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles.
The author: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.