Jungle Book [And:] The Second Jungle Book by KIPLING, Rudyard - 1894

First Edition ìJungle Booksî in the Original Bindings KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. With illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First edition, second printing with two dates on verso of title-page. Small octavo. (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x 120 mm). [vi], [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). [vi], 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 spine and corners of the second book with a bit of rubbing. Final ad leaf in second book with some light foxing. Overall an about fine 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 68158. $4,500