The Second Jungle Book
New York: The Century Co., 1895. Decorated by John Lockwood Kipling. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's full orange cloth (one of two variants, no priority), illustratively blind stamped, title stamped in gilt, lacking dust jacket. [x], 324. 7.5" x 5.5" General moderate wear, moderately toned spine, half inch repair to spine head, sparsely foxed endpapers, still very good, lacking dust jacket. Item #239591
RETURN TO THE JUNGLE
Still centered around India, this second installation of The Jungle Book offers another five stories featuring Mowgli, as well as three unrelated tales, written while Kipling was living in Vermont. Deeply influenced by Kipling's own experience as a child born in Bombay, rejoin Bagheera, Baloo, and Mowgli in their made-family, trecking through Indian forests. The Second Jungle Book, interestingly drawing readers away from his Indian homeland for the only time in the series, also includes the story of two Inuk children who encounter an animal spirit while journeying to save their tribe.
A presentable first American edition, wonderfully illustrated by Kipling's father.
[Livingston 117].
Price: $150.00