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Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - Rare 1894. The Century Company, 1894.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The book is in fair condition. There is a signature in the front and no bookplates or markings of any other kind. There is some wear to the top and bottom of the spine and some rubbing to the outside boards. The top corner of the front cover is chipped. Top edge Gilt. The pages are clean and free of foxing. 303 pages. This is an early edition, printed by The Century Company in 1894. A very hard to find copy of Kipling's classic work.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. The Century Company, New York, 1894.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Poor condition. No Dust Jacket. (Illustrated). Dated 1894. "Fifteenth Thousand" on title page. 303 numbered pages. Dark green cloth binding with gold color print of elephant on front and four animals on spine. Embossed designs around elephant and on spine. Wear and chipping to boards, spine head and tail missing cloth; lower back rear board worn away to about 1/4 inch at spine. Staining to front. Front board partially separated from pages; all pages present and bound in. Book is cocked. Rough cut pages at fore edge, gilt top edge worn. Gift inscription to front flyleaf (to) Henry Lane Colt.Foxing throughout. Book is in poor condition but all pages readable and present. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling - 1894. The Century Co, 1894.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. There is a signature in the front and no bookplates or markings of any other kind. Top edge Gilt. There is some foxing. 303 pages. There is some wear to the top of the spine. This is an early edition, printed by The Century Company in 1894. A very hard to find copy of Kipling's classic work.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. The Century Co., 1894.
Price: US$173.24 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1894. Eighteenth Thousand. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Black and white plates and in-text illustrations by W. H. Drake, all present as expected. Pages have deckled edges. Upper text block edge gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with pronounced foxing. Hinges and guttering are notably cracked. Binding is moderately loose. Sporadic intense foxing throughout. Slight smudges and thumb marks occasionally. Gathering including title page and illustration list is loosening. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed. Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Pronounced tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has a heavy forward lean. Some pale bleaching marks to boards and spine. Gilt is bright.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. THE JUNGLE BOOK. The Century Co., New York, N.Y., 1894.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark green cloth binding with gold colored print on front cover and spine. Front has embossed box around a gold colored elephant. Spine has embossed design with gold print and four gold animals. Gold tint headedge. Rough-cut foredge and bottom. Very slight spine cant. Previous owner gift note on front fly leaf. The only issue with this book is a lot of foxing spots on pages. Sound and otherwise unmarked. 302 pages. Including short piece :"Her Majesty's Servants". Scan available on request
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. The Century Co., New York, 1894.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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 bookplate applied inside front cover showing crest of arms opposite related inscription dated 1895, foxing to end papers, binding lean
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Century Co., NY, 1894.
Price: US$316.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in decorative green cloth, stamped in gold with a picture of an elephant to front panel. Top edge gilt (still bright). Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. Some very minor spotting to pages. Overall, a most acceptable copy of the first U.S. edition of this book. Housed in a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. 303 pp. Illustrated. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. The Jungle Book.. Century Co., New York, 1894.
Price: US$338.21 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. 8vo., orig. green pictorial cloth, (xx), 303pp. Lacking the front free e/paper, name o/w a near fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
KIPLING, Rudyard.. The Jungle Book. The Second Jungle Book.. The Century Co., New York, 1894.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 8vo, publisher's green decorated cloth, t.e.g. First US editions. Some smudging to the text and foxing to the endsheets of The Jungle Book; tiny light spotting to the cloth of both volumes; tight and sound. Old ownership inscription in each volume (same Syracuse, NY family).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. The Century Co.,, New York:, 1894.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: 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 is gilt. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with the cloth on the spine slightly tanned, the cloth at the head of the spine shows a 1/4 inch closed tear (which has been professionally repaired) and light rubbing to the tips of the boards. The front board is ever so slightly bowed. The contents are clean and bright with the hinges and joints strong with no signs of weakness. 303 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece and 34 images from drawings by W. H. Drake. This US first edition was printed on the same day as the British first edition. (Richards, A77)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. The Century Co., 1894.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: States "Fifteenth Thousand" on Title page. Rare and collectible. Dark green cloth, gold elephant decoration and lettering on front board, gold titles on spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and thirty four full page illustrations. No stated publishing history so presumed first American edition, first printing thus. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Pages show light brown aging spots. No DJ. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front board, previous owner's signature on front endpaper, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square with no fading on boards. Corners lightly bumped. Shows a slight spine lean. Hinges are firm. Light edge wear along tops and bottoms of boards and spine.
Seller: Code X Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. New York: The Century Co., 1894.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First U.S. edition, first printing with no additional printings noted. Lacking dust jacket. Olive cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt on both boards and the spine, top edges gilt. Cover with minor soiling, some tears and rubbing to the corners and spine ends, bumped corners and rubbing. Names of two former owners written on the front free endpaper. Pages with some minor scattered foxing. Staining on pages 132 and 133 from a flower(?) that was once pressed there, but the text is still readable.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. The Century Co., 1894.
Price: US$538.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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 William Henry Drake and J L Kipling, Kipling?s father. First American edition. Xvii + 303pp. Upper edge gilt. Slightly cocked, spine sunned, occasional marks, some age toning. A previous owner has tipped in a cutting of The Law for the Wolves opposite the list of illustrations. Kipling?s classic tales of jungle animals, Mogwai, Shere Khan and so on.
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. THE JUNGLE BOOK. , 1894.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: 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, constitute Kipling's best-loved work: For there is a unique magic in the JUNGLE BOOKs from the moment the infant Mowgli enters the wolf's lair, and the moonlight is blacked out at the mouth of the cave by the great head of the tiger Shere Khan, and his roar fills it with thunder. There is magic too in the jungle, so glowingly portrayed, with its danger-haunted thickets, and the monkeys threading its frail liana ways, the enchanted land of which Mowgli is to become the master; and in the animals who are his friends and mentors -- Bagheera, the sleek and terrible panther; Baloo, the wise old bear; Hathi, the elephant; Kaa, the gigantic python who makes a nest for Mowgli in his coils; Akela, the leader of the wolf-pack; and the bandarlog, chattering outcasts of the tree tops, whose only wish is to be noticed, and who immediately abandon every task they have begun. [Birkenhead] This volume is in near-fine condition (spine cloth a little darkened, a trace of rubbing at the extremities); as with most copies we have encountered, in the binding process a leaf was glued down under the rear endpaper. Richards A77; Stewart 124.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG+, no DJs. First American Editions. Both volumes in comparable, excellent condition, with very minimal signs of wear and use to board edges and extremities. First Volume (The Jungle Book) has slightly cocked spine, previous owner's inscription on ffep, adhesive damage from else very nice example. Binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked. Second Volume (The Second Jungle Book) has light general wear to exterior, else excellent example. Binding tight and straight, clean and unmarked inside and out.
Seller: Nick of All Trades, Penn Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. The Century Company, 1894.
Price: US$898.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1896 edition. States "Thirtieth Thousand" on Title page. Publishers original green cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations on front cover and spine. Top page edge in gilt. Bookplate inside front cover. No markings. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.
Seller: Archives Books inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. The Century Co., New York, 1894.
Price: US$1125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Jungle Book Vol. I. 303pp.(1894). Original green blind stamped cloth with gilt title, author's name. Profile of an elephant in gilt to the front cover and a tiger to the rear cover. Blind stamped decoration to the spine with four animals in gilt. Top of pages in gilt. The other page edges are rough cut. Armorial bookplate and former owner's neat signature to the front pastedown. Half Title. Black and white illustrations. Headpieces. The Second Jungle Book. Vol II. 324 pp. (1895) Original red cloth blind stamped decoration to the front and rear covers. Blind stamped decoration to the spine with gilt title. Expert repair to the head cap. Some very mild soiling to the boards and spine. Top of page edges in gilt. The other two edges are rough cut. Former owner's signatures to the free front endpaper. Black and white illustrations. Headpieces. Half Title. An attractive set. Size: 5.0" x 7.5" Language: eng
Seller: 12 Peers Fine Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 Of George Lindsay Bury [Of Moreton Central Sugar Mill, Starfield Observatory, Etc.]. The Jungle Book, 1894, First Printing, In Good To Very Good Condition, Gilt Complete But With Some Wear To Illustrations On Spine And Cover, Small Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine Cloth A Little Darkened; Hinges Beginning To Crack; Contents Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Tissue Guard Intact. The Second Jungle Book, 1895, First Printing, Very Slight Wear,All Gilt Complete And Brilliant, Very Good + To Near Fine Condition, 1" Crack At Center Of Rear Hinge, Slight Rubbing At Corners.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book.. New York, The Century Co., 1894.
Price: US$1689.36 + shipping
Description: 19,5 x 13,5 cm, XVII, 303 p., ill. also in full - page, green linnen cloth bound with gold - letter and with an elephant on the bookplate, the copyright of this edition indicates 1893, 1894 by R. Kipling, 1894 by The Century,
Seller: Antiquariat A. Wempe, Sarnen, Switzerland
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, William Henry Drake, and Paul Frenzeny. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue boards, spines lettered in gilt, pictorial jungle images based on artwork by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling stamped to the front boards in gilt, all edges gilt, green coated endpapers. Near fine, with a touch of toning to spine, light rubbing to spine ends, lightly bumped bottom right corner of front board, front free endpaper cleanly and discreetly reattached, ownership inscription to half-title page, a hint of dampstaining to bottom margin of title page, and very light spotting to some pages at front and rear of book. Overall, a bright and sturdy copy. The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories and verses, the most famous of which relate to the feral child protagonist Mowgli, a "man cub." While they can be read independently of each other, each chapter serves as a fable using animal figures to provide a moral lesson. In each volume, the short stories are both preceded and followed by poems or songs, including the notable "Mowgli's Song" and "The Law of the Jungle." The Jungle Books, based on the author's childhood and later work experience in British India, are indicative of Western Orientalist ideology at the turn of the 20th century, which is somewhat softened by Kipling's fondness for his former home. Both Jungle Books are illustrated by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling, who was a practicing illustrator and art professor in Bombay.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Jungle Book [And:] The Second Jungle Book. Macmillan and Co, London, 1894.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Full Description: KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. With illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First edition. Small octavo. (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm). [viii], [2], 212 pp. With frontispiece and tissue guard. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page illustrations, included in pagination. [Together with:] KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition. Small octavo. ( 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm). [viii], 238, [2, ads] pp. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page illustrations, included in pagination. Title-page with vignette illustrations. With two pages of publisher's advertisements. Two volumes. Original bright blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt on front covers and spines and lettered in gilt on spines. Volume one with elephants stamped in gilt on front cover and a gilt cobra on the spine. Volume II with a cobra in gilt on front cover and a man and snake in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. Original dark blue-green coated endpapers. Extremities of the spines and corners with a small bit of rubbing. Some minor staining to front board of volume one. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown of volume one. A small bookseller blindstamp on front free endpaper, also in volume one. Front endpapers of volume one with a small bit of staining. Volume two with repairs and minor splitting to inner hinges. Both volumes with some light foxing. Overall a very nice set. Rudyard Kipling has been called "perhaps the most original genius among English-writing novelists of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries." Certainly no other has been so widely acclaimed, so eagerly read, so lastingly loved by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. The honors bestowed upon him all over the world were capped in 1907 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Livingston 104 and 116. Martindell 61 and 63. Stewart 123 and 132. HBS 69066. $2,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Original green cloth, embossed designs and gilt lettering and illustrations at spine and covers. Illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. This copy with most of the original publisher's printed [and illustrated with elephant at front panel] tan and green stamped dustjacket. "Love of animals, imagination about animals, the placing of anthropomorphic words in their mouths, is the prevailing whim of the English, and The Jungle Books, for that reason, have brought joy and enthusiasm to many a heart. Mowgli, the wolf-child, and wolf-reared children are true things. Baloo, and Bagheera and Kaa are not only household words in our nurseries and school-rooms, they are the wisdom of the ages and the pleasure of the hour in the studies and boudoirs of the parents. Rikki-tikki-Tavi is supreme in the hearts of our old ladies. Toomai of the Elephants is sheer Kheddah lore. A great mastering of the wild forest and its fauna, of the aboriginal folk whom Jan Chinn controlled, is herein displayed, a lore before which the scientist will bow down." [ George MacMunn, in Rudyard Kipling, Craftsman]. Near Fine attractive copy, previous owner name at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, lacking front flap and top two inches of front panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5774.69 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, first printing of both volumes. With the tipped in signature of Rudyard Kipling. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full navy blue morocco illustrated and ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards; five raised bands, gilt ruled and illustrated compartments, titles in gilt to the spines. Gilt decorated board edges, inner dentelles triple ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Publisher's original cloth bound in at the rear of each volume. 'The Jungle Book' with an engraved frontispiece by William Henry Drake (complete with tissue guard as issued) and many illustrations throughout the text by the author's father John Lockwood Kipling, William Henry Drake and Paul Frenzeny. 'The Second Jungle Book' with numerous illustrations throughout the text by John Lockwood Kipling and a single page of publisher's adverts at the rear, as issued. A fine set, the bindings square and tight, without fading or wear. The contents are clean and bright throughout, without foxing or previous owner's inscriptions. Both volumes are housed in a blue cloth, ribbon pull slipcase. Tipped in at the front free endpaper of The Jungle Book is a slip of paper signed in black ink by the Nobel Prize winning author, Rudyard Kipling. A beautifully presented, appealing set of this classic of nineteenth-century children's literature, charting the adventures of the "man-cub" Mowgli and his jungle-dwelling friends. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. The Century Co, New York, 1894.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of Kipling's classic title, in the very scarce 1st issue dust jacket. 8vo, original green cloth, with blind stamped and gilt decorations on front and rear covers and spine. Book is in very good condition with early owner's ink signature and date on ffep, end papers foxed. Dust jacket with very minor chips, stained on rear panel and with narrow 3 1/2 inch red stain on front panel. Very scarce in dust jacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. The Century Co, New York, 1894.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of Kipling's classic title, in the very scarce 1st issue dust jacket. 8vo, original green cloth, with blind stamped and gilt decorations on front and rear covers and spine. Book is in very good condition with early owner's ink signature and date on ffep, end papers foxed. Dust jacket with very minor chips, stained on rear panel and with narrow 3 1/2 inch red stain on front panel. Very scarce in dust jacket.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.