The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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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The Jungle Book.
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- 1950
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1950. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. 14 x 21cm. Frontispiece, 244 pages, with plates and text illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with decorated endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, a crease to frontispiece and a very slight lean. [Illustrated Junior Library]. The classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India:… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1908
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Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire, GBR
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London: Macmillan & Co.. London, Macmillan & Co., 1908. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A near fine copy. One of the highlights of book illustration. Spine tips a touch rubbed and bumped. Two ownership inscriptions to front endpaper, but overall a very nice copy. Complete. First Detmold edition. A classic work. Illustrations by Maurice and Edward Detmold [9049, Hyraxia Books].… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Good +
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- First edition
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- 1894
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- Hardcover
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edinburgh, Midlothian, GBR
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$522.82
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New York: The Century Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. William Henry Drake; J L Kipling. 8vo, Original olive green cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration on covers and spine. The front cover has an elephant and the rear, a tiger. Beautifully illustrated with frontis and plates, drawings and chapter headings throughout the text. Illustrated by… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- First Edition
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- 1894
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Deep River, Connecticut, USA
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$425.00
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New York: The Century Co., 1894. First Edition. Very good+ in decorated, green cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt animal images on the spine and gilt text and the gilt image of an elephant on the front board and a gilt image of a tiger on the rear board. The top edge of the text block… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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- Used - Very Good ++
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1899
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- Cloth
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, GBR
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UK: Macmillan, 1899. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J L Kipling, W H Drake, P Frenzeny. 1st Printing 1899 in the Uniform Edition and very un-common. This format became the normal publication for all future printing of Kiplings new works. An attractive book. Book is very good+… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book [And] The Second Jungle Book [Two Volumes, First Printings]
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- First Editions 1st Printing
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- 1894
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- Blue Cloth, Gilt
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$1,600.00
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London [1894, 1895]: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Editions 1st Printing. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates By J Lockwood Kipling, W H Drake, P. Frenzeny. Viii, 212; (Ii), 238 + 2 Page Catalog At End. Blue Cloth, Lettered And Decorated In Gilt; All Edges Gilt; Slate Grey Endpapers. Both Volumes With Late 19Th Century Engraved Bookplates… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE JUNGLE BOOK
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- 1894
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Yarmouth, Maine, USA
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$575.00
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1894. Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. New York: The Century Co., 1894. Original olive-green cloth decorated in gilt.
First American Edition, published on the same day (May 22nd) as the English edition. Many of the illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father. This book and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, along with KIM and JUST SO STORIES,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1894
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Edition. Very Good. 1894, 1895. Two volumes. 303; 238 pp. + 2 [ads]. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Very Good to Near Fine, with toning to spine, light wear to cloth, light staining to rear cover of the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- First Edition
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- 1894
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$4,500.00
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. 1894, 1895. Two volumes. 303; 238 pp. + 2 [ads]. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original royal blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light toning to spine cloth and light rubbing to extremities. Pages toned, previous owner… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book.
by RUDYARD KIPLING.
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- 1894
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- Hardcover
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London, GBR
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$1,244.80
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Macmillan, London 1894 and 1895, 1894. First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'The Jungle Book' (1894). First edition. 8vo. vi, 212pp. With illustrations by J.Lockwood Kipling, W.H.Drake and P.Frenzen. Original publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, depicting three elephants with riders and a herder on the upper board, plus additional decorations to the backstrip, these last… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1894
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- Hardcover
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Kingston, New York, USA
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$200.00
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New York: The Century Co., 1894. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. hardcover (1894,c.1893,1894) in green embossed boards with gold gilt title decorations, eighteenth thousand as stated under publisher colophon on title page, 303 pages with all illustrations as listed present, single numerical code under last line starting with 1 on page 1 ending with 19* on page 293, interesting period… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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- Used
- Published
- 1946
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- Hard Back
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, GBR
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London: Macmillan. 1946. Hard Back. no dustjacket, blue boards with gilt lettering and design to spine fair, internally very good, names to front endpaper, bit scruffy. . Item Price
$1.00
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The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket
- Published
- 1940
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- Bound in green cloth
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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$25.00
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With lovely illustrations by Kurt Wiese, this 80+ year old copy of Rudyard Kipling's classic novel is in good condition with slight cover wear. There is a former owner's gift inscription on the front endsheet. Item Price
$25.00
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1918
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- Hardcover
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Clarence, New York, USA
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$750.00
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New York: The Century Co, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. First American edition, fiftieth printing. Published by The Century Co., New York, 1918. Illustrated with black and white plates. Measures 5" x 7.5", 303 pages. With its rare original dust jacket that states "Fiftieth Printing" on the front cover. The dust… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jungle Book, The
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Very Good
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- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Published
- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Middlebury, Vermont, USA
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$50.00
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New York : Doubleday Doran and Co., 1928. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 305 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover with a black decoration of a sailing boat. This is the uncommon 1928 reprint, notable for the 35 b&w illustrated plates by different artists but not credited. The chapter decorations are by John Lockwood Kipling. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling Retold By Lesley Young
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860350364
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- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$15.00
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London: Anness Publishing Limited, 1995. pictorial hard cover is in very good condition as is the dust jacket with a couple of small tears and slight wear. is unmarked and tightly bound. is unpaginated.. Pictorial Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Jenny Thorne. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Item Price
$15.00
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The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1950
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Temperance, Michigan, USA
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$120.00
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This illustrated Junior Library Edition has a colorful hardcover protected by a Mylar cover. The boards are in very good condition, showing only minor wear at the ends. Free of owner markings. Pages are clean, not torn and the corners are not bent. Spine is tight. Nonsmoking. Book is in very good condition. Proceeds from the sale of this book… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1950
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Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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$16.00
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Unmarked pages. Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition 5th or later Printing
- Published
- 1903
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, GBR
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$280.08
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UK: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint 1903 of the Uniform Edition. Beautifully bound in a contemporary full leather binding by Spottiswood Bindery. Book is very good+ with quite bright boards and gilt work. Leather slightly dull on front board edge. Contents… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Published
- 2003
- Binding
- Softcover
- ISBN 10
- 1405416769
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Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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$7.00
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Parragon Publishing, 2003. VG/VG. Softcover. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; few creases at edges. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; overall clean & tight. 255 pages Keywords: 1405416769 Item Price
$7.00