The Second Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York,NY: Macmillan & Company, 1895. Book. Illus. by Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Very Good. Hardcover. American First. Bound in medium blue cloth with gold cobra and ankus or thotti on front cover and gold Mowgli with Kaa on the spine; also gold borders on front cover and gold lettering on spine; gilt edges; edge wear to boards particularly at top and bottom of spine and at corners; black and white illustrations throughout and in particular at chapter heads..
Synopsis
The Second Jungle Book is 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006490
- Title
- The Second Jungle Book
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Illustrator
- Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- American First
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York,NY
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- British Fiction
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