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Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. The Century Company, 1895.
Price: US$24.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. Century Co., New York, 1895.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Old ink name in front. Rubbed corners with small loss to lower outside front corner. Near vg. 324pp. Decorations by John Lockwood Kipling. Orange cloth with blind embossing & gilt titles. Gilt top. DeVinne Press. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. The Century Company, NY, 1895.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First (US) printing. Red-brown cloth with gilt lettering and blindstamped decorations. Good overall condition. Brief faded 1895 gift inscription. Brief, one page article "Rudyard KIpling at the Zoo", which recounts a Kipling visit to the London Zoo during which he apparently communicated and cheered up a depressed elephant, is loosely affixed to the front pastedown. Slight slant, moderate wear. (box 160)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$39.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages; HC 1st American edition. In original burnt orange colored cloth with titles in gilt and decorative designs in gilt. Binding sound but shaken. Cloth thinned and chipped at spine ends with moderate darkening to spine surface. Corners bumped with abrasions. Prior ownership inscription at front dated 1896. Several signatures starting a little at front. Contents generally clean and neat with a few superficial mild instances of soiling observed. Good candidate for rebinding. With flaws. Good only
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Century Co. New York 1895, New York, 1895.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good tight condition hardback light shelfwear spine darkened Association Copy with the Signature of R. Hall Caine on the flyleaf. 1st U.S. Edition. Another copy VG_ light edgewear 60.00
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. THE CENTURY CO, NEW YORK, 1895.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: pages clean, black and white illustrations, previous owners signature on front end paper, cover sehlf worn, gilt on cover and spine DATE PUBLISHED: 1895 EDITION: 324
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. The Second Jungle Book.. The Century Co [1895], New York, 1895.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Originally published in 1895, this is the 1900 printing. Near Fine in dull dark grey cloth stamped in gilt with black animal motifs, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Binding sound, no splits. No writing or soil to pages or endpapers. 324pp. Excellent period reading copy. Q13661
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. The Second Jungle Book.. New York The Century Co, 1895.
Price: US$96.47 + shipping
Description: Illustrierter Original-Leinenband, Goldschnitt, First American Edition, decorated by John Lockwood Kipling, 324 Seiten, 13,5 x 19,5 cm, Einband minime Bereibung, gut erhalten.
Seller: Libretto Antiquariat & mundart.ch, Langnau i.E., BE, Switzerland
Rudyard Kipling. The Second Jungle Book. New York: The Century Co., 1895.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US edition. 324, (2, blank) pp. Hardcover, rebound in modern full green morocco, top edge gilt. The binding fine; the text block toned with occasional, largely marginal blemishes.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. The Century CO., 1895.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Orange cloth over boards, some rubbing on edges. Bright gilt lettering on front board, spine is tanned. Top edge is damp satined. Page edges are toned. Name on rear endpaper.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Second Jungle Book. The Century Co., New York, 1895.
Price: US$111.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book in nice condition, some minor fading to cover, spine top and bottom showing a bit of wear from sliding in and off the shelf over the years, otherwise in very nice condition.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Second Jungle Book. The Century Co., 1895.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition 1895 In First Issue Binding Orange With Pineapple. Great Children's Classic.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. The Century Co., 1895.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publishers rose cloth with titles in gilt, front & rear cover decoration in blind. Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling. Ink name to front free endpaper, short tear to rear endpaper, VERY GOOD; a tight square copy with top edge gilt. Spine panel age toned but titles are readable. Pics on request.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. The Century Co., New York, 1895.
Price: US$156.30 + shipping
Description: Decorated green cloth. Illustrated with plates. The same contents as the prior English edition but with a number of differences in the text. This green cloth copy with the elephant in the center matching the first JUNGLE BOOK, though this stamped in black instead of gold. Spine sunned, little soiled. 1896 owner inscription on the front endpaper. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Century Co., 1895.
Price: US$181.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition (preceding the UK release by several days, with a number of alterations to the text). One of two binding variants (no priority). Spine toned, edges rubbed, ink name & pencil gift note dated Christmas 1895 on front endpaper. 324 pp. 8vo. A sequel to the children's classic The Jungle Book -- which inspired the classic Disney animated film, as well as the 2016 live action motion picture -- with illustrations by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard; Kipling, J. Lockwood. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. Macmillan and Co, London, 1895.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the sequel to the children's classic, with beautiful late Victorian line illustrations by the author's father. Octavo, 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Dark green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling in black and white. Publisher's ads at rear. [6], 238, [2] pages. Slight lean, toning and a bit of rubbing to spine, gilt somewhat dulled. Scattered light foxing to interior.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Macmillan and Co., 1895.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in about very good condition. Scattered foxing as usual. Gold trim all around edges. Tear to the spine and general wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Corners worn and bent, still about very good overall. No jacket.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. MacMillan & Co, London & New York, 1895.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Edition; blue cloth with the great gilt cobra on the cover; gilding on spine nice but slightly faded; spine slightly cocked; light rubbing to corners, edges and top/bottom of spine; yet an attractive copy; text edges gilded; two small early stamps to blue ffep, otherwise no marks or signatures; 2 pages publisher's ads at end; text clean and tight with occasional light brownspotting; illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Macmillan and Co, London, 1895.
Price: US$463.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 238pp., (2) pp. publisher's ads, illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling. This is the sequel to The Jungle Book which was published the year before. This is a popular book for all ages, children to adults and was made into a movie. Bound in blue pictorial gilt cloth depicting Kaa, pictorial gilt spine, dark green endpapers, small circular bookplate. Tyler Kipling Collection, all edges gilt. A very nice copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
KIPLING, RUDYARD. The Second Jungle Book. Century Co., New York, 1895.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: A CLEAN, NEAR-FINE COPY OF THE 1ST AMERICAN EDITION WITH GREEN CLOTH BOARDS. BRIGHT GILT LETTERING, TIGHT BINDING, BRIGHT GOLD TOPSTAIN, CLEAN INTERIOR. NO WRITING OR NAMES. ONLY FLAWS ARE VERY SLIGHTLY BUMPED CORNERS, AND CREASE ON FRONT ENDPAPER. A pretty copy.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Century Co., New York, 1895.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in full rust morocco, raised bands, gilt decorated spine compartments, top edge gilt. Small 8vo, 324 pp. Decorations by John Lockwood Kipling in black and white. An absolutely beautiful volume in full leather binding.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. The Century Company, New York. 1894-95. Xx, 303 pgs; 324 pgs. IIlustrated. Vol I: 20th Thousand; Vol II: First Edition/First Printing. Bound in red andgreen cloth boards with gilt stamp titles present to the boards and the spine titles. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are rubbed and worn to the extremities). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Light offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mowgli, lost in the deep jungle as a child, is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger, Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs the Laws of the Jungle. Through his many adventures, Mowgli evolves from a man-cub to a just and compassionate human being who at last returns to joinperhaps to leadhis own kind. 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. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. , 1895.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First English Edition (published three days after the American) of the sequel to THE JUNGLE BOOK, which had been published the year before. It continues with more tales of Mowgli that exemplify "The Laws of the Jungle" -- with illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father. This was the second of the four Kipling gift books bound similarly by Macmillan, with SOLDIER TALES and CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS coming out the following two years respectively. This is an attractive, near-fine copy (volume slightly askew, spine gilt less than bright, but no foxing and essentially no wear); the front flyleaf bears an inked "Xmas 1895" signature. Richards A85; Stewart 132.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$1085.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, is half-bound in cordovan leather over black pebbled boards, with original floral endpapers, the hinges holding well. Closes its own text block and would thus grade "very good," but we downgrade to "good plus" due to substantial wear and rub which has stripped the leather to outer corners. Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait or Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine," a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground; Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., here reduced from $1,275.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$1117.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, is half-bound in black leather over blue-and-black marbled boards, with original floral endpapers, the hinges holding well although there's the beginning of some separation to rear internal hinge. Bang to fore-edge of front board. Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait or Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine," a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground; Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., reduced from $1,550.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$1300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, was evidently rebound at some point in reddish-brown cloth with plain green endpapers by New York's Eggering Bindery, whose small label appears to bottom corner of front pastedown. Gilt titles to spine. Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait or Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine" (a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground); Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp., here reduced from $1,800.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Kipling Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. New York The Century Co. 1895, 1895.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, American Issue, same year as the English first. Illustrated throughout with decorations by John Lockwood Kipling. 8vo, publisher's original cloth, the spine panel and upper cover lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in black, t.e.g. [x], 324 pp. A very handsome and pleasing copy, the gilt bright and well preserved, the black pictorial decorations also in pleasing condition. A HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED IN AMERICA, THE SAME YEAR AS THE ENGLISH FIRST EDITION. These stories, of Mowgli, a human child lost in the jungles of India and raised by wild animals, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the white seal, Baloo and others struck a cord with readers who were able to find these exotic animals and people easy to relate to despite the bizarre circumstances and far off locales. They are arguably the best loved of Kiplings many delightful works for children and a true classic of its genre.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Rare sheet music printing of Rudyard Kipling's Ford O'Kabul River, a song from Barrack-Room Ballads. Folio, bound in one quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In good condition. Bound with several other pieces including Ciro Pinsuti's Bedouin Love Song. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India, which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This hefty large octavo volume, binding six monthly issues of the 19th Century magazine, is half-bound in cordovan leather over pebbled boards of a similar color, with original gray-green endpapers and bright marbled page edges, five raised bands with equally bright gilt spine titling and the hinges holding well; "very good." Notable primarily for Thomas Commerford Martin's 18-page essay on Nikola "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions," with 15 illustrations including long-exposure portraits of Mark Twain and Tesla himself, each in Tesla's darkened laboratory, lit only by Tesla's incandescent and phosphorescent bulbs -- including photos of experiments in which lamps are lit "in free space by induction from coil below, energized by distant circuit around the room." This volume also includes a further three-page essay with engraved portrait of Hermann Von Helmholtz by Mr. Commerford Martin; a report with photos on the inventor Hiram Maxim's "New Flying-Machine," a complex and somewhat ramshackle steam-powered (!) construction which never seems to have actually gotten off the ground; Kate Chopin's story "Azelie" (illustrated by Eric Pope); Rudyard Kipling's nine-page story "A Walking Delegate"; comments on a proposal for "Forest Preservation by Military Control" from Frederick Law Olmstead, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and others; a 19-page essay on John Paul Jones by Molly Elliot Seawell, profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle; the first two parts of Harriet Waters Preston's essay "Beyond the Adriatic," illustrated by Joseph Pennell (who also illustrated Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer's "Churches of Provence"); Mrs. Van Rensselaer's "People in New York," illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson; William M. Sloane's multi-part biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; a 14-page illustrated report on "New Weapons of the United States Army" to include the Krag-Jorgensen rifle with its side-loading magazine, the Ericsson torpedo and numerous coastal defense cannon of up to 12 inches (few of which, we feel certain, were ever fired in anger); a seven page "dramatic sketch" on "The Passing of Muhammad, Prophet of Arabia" in blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold; Edith Wharton's poem "Jade," and, on the final page, a dialect poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. This bound volume weighs slightly more than 4 lbs. -- overseas shipment could be costly. 960 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. The Second Jungle Book.. The Century Co., New York, 1895.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 324 pp. 8vo, publisher's green decorated cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket. First US edition; second binding; second issue dust jacket. Slight darkening at the very top edge of the cloth, where exposed by the slightly shorter dust jacket; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket tanned at the spine, with some light spotting/soiling, and two short closed tears.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. THE JUNGLE BOOK AND THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. Century Company, New York, 1895.
Price: US$3074.45 + shipping
Description: The Jungle Book Very Good and The Second Jungle Book Very Good in boards. The Jungle Book: Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Light rubbing along panel edges. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Top text block edges of both volumes gilded. The Second Jungle Book: soiling along rear panel edges. Rubbing along panel edges. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Owner name printed on FEP. Both are first U. S. Edition and First Printings.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. The Century Co, New York, 1895.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, second issue of binding. 8vo., original green cloth blind stamped and decorated in gilt and black on front cover and spine, and in black and blind stamped on rear cover, top edge gilt. In the very scarce dust jacket, second issue which has the same format as the dust jacket for The Jungle Book with an elephant in the center of the front panel. The first issue dust jacket is white and orange with an image of a pineapple tree on the front panel. The first issue binding was terra cotta cloth with a pineapple tree image on the front cover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket, which has some staining. Spine edges of book slightly faded.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. The Century Co, New York, 1895.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, second issue of binding. 8vo., original green cloth blind stamped and decorated in gilt and black on front cover and spine, and in black and blind stamped on rear cover, top edge gilt. In the very scarce dust jacket, second issue which has the same format as the dust jacket for The Jungle Book with an elephant in the center of the front panel. The first issue dust jacket is white and orange with an image of a pineapple tree on the front panel. The first issue binding was terra cotta cloth with a pineapple tree image on the front cover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket, which has some staining. Spine edges of book slightly faded.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6084.10 + shipping
Description: First editions in book form of Kipling's best-known classic of children's literature, attractively bound by the leading British bookbinder Riviere. Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; he was the first English-language writer, and the youngest ever, to receive the prize. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India, The Jungle Book was first published in periodicals in 1893 and 1894. An immediate success on publication, it was reprinted twice in 1894 and twice again the following year. "Kipling followed with The Second Jungle Book (1895), but the two sets of stories have rarely been united, despite the fact that the later book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that relate closely to those in the first book and that are essential to its emotional rounding-out" (Grolier). Grolier Children's 100, 52; Martindell 61 & 63; Richards A76 & A85. 2 works, octavo (179 x 117 mm). Early 20th-century half vellum by Rivière, smooth spines tooled in gilt with elaborate floral design, green morocco labels, light blue cloth sides ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece to The Jungle Book, illustrations in the text of both volumes, by William Henry Drake, Paul Frenzeny, and the author's father John Lockwood Kipling. Armorial bookplates of British collector Howard Douglas Leonard Galton (1858-1923) on front pastedowns. Gilt bright, couple of tiny chips to spine labels, nick to a few initial leaves in vol. II, of which two neatly repaired. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom