Jungle Books

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Gallery Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: First Edition

Description: 354 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893“94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the authors father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont (just north of Brattleboro), in the United States. There is evidence that the collection of stories was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 at six years of age by pneumonia; a rare first edition of the book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trusts Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 2010.

ISBN: 0861366263