The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (AVERAGE)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co, 1894. GILT illustrations on boards , Reprint in same year as First Edition. Rubbing to the spine and board edges. (We also have a matching Second Jungle Book FIRST EDITION 1895)............. Please Email for further details.. Not Signed or Inscribed. Reprint 1894. Blue Cloth. Very Good (AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated By J.L Kipling,W.H Drake & P. Frenzeny . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK.
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
On Mar 2 2017, a reader said:
I once owned this particular copy of The Jungle Book, and been searching for it for years. The illustrations and type face make this a gem to have in your personal library. Thanks to Biblio, I believe my search is over!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfarm
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 557344
- Title
- The Jungle Book
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Illustrator
- Illustrated By J.L Kipling,W.H Drake & P. Frenzeny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (AVERAGE)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint 1894
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
Terms of Sale
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Returns accepted within 30 days if book fails to meet description.
About the Seller
Bookfarm
Biblio member since 2004
Peter Tavy
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Inscribed
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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