London: Macmillan, 1895. First editions. Numerous illustrations, both full-page and in the text, by J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, a.e.g., inner front hinge started in Vol.I, in drop blue cloth case. Kipling, J. Lockwood, and others. First editions. Numerous illustrations, both full-page and in the text, by J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. 2 vols. 8vo. Grolier/Kipling 185, 197; Stewart 123, 132; Richards A76, A85

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RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills . After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book . He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on January 18, 1936.

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Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 338058
Title: The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Format/Binding: Numerous illustrations, both full-page and in the text, by J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. 2 vols. 8vo
Book Condition: Used - Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, a.e.g., inner front hinge started in Vol.I, in drop blue cloth case
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First editions
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1895
Keywords: British
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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