KIPLING, RUDYARD. 1865-1936. Heavily corrected typed manuscript draft for "The Spring Running," the last of the Mowgli stories, collected in The Second Jungle Book, a nearly final draft with numerous autograph corrections, additions, and deletions to every page, 18 pp, folio (270 x 205 mm), annotated by his typist at the head, "about 3300, bill with postage, $1.35," [1895], minor staining to first and last leaves, custom folding chemise, blue Morocco backed box.
"And this is the last of the Mowgli stories because there are no more to be told."
ORIGINAL CORRECTED AND ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT FOR "THE SPRING RUNNING," THE BITTERSWEET RETURN OF MOWGLI TO THE WORLD OF MAN AND THE FINAL MOWGLI STORY. Beginning in 1893, Kipling wrote the captivating cycle of stories collected as The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. He completed the saga in March 1895 with this story, "The Second Running," in which Mowgli, now the King of the Jungle, says goodbye to the jungle in order to return to the world of man, and as (we learned in the opening story of The Jungle Book) get married and live among men. "Man goes to man," as the poem goes.
The typescript appears to follow the holograph manuscript held by the British Library, with the typist's notations on the first page indicating that this may have been typed from that manuscript. Kipling's autograph corrections, some significant, appear in the final published work, although there are additional differences between the typescript and the published version, indicating a further revision before publication, possibly in proof.
Kipling manuscripts relating to his major works are rare. This annotated typed manuscript, along with five others from The Jungle Book, last appeared at auction in 1991. We trace no other manuscript from The Jungle Book at auction in the interim. Mowgli, his story preserved many times in film, is Kipling's greatest contribution to literature and popular culture, and Mowgli's departure from the jungle, leaving the storied adventure of his youth behind, one of the story's most poignant moments.
KIPLING, RUDYARD. 1865-1936. Heavily corrected typed manuscript draft for "The Spring Running," the last of the Mowgli stories, collected in The Second Jungle Book, a nearly final draft with numerous autograph corrections, additions, and deletions to every page, 18 pp, folio (270 x 205 mm), annotated by his typist at the head, "about 3300, bill with postage, $1.35," [1895], minor staining to first and last leaves, custom folding chemise, blue Morocco backed box.
"And this is the last of the Mowgli stories because there are no more to be told."
ORIGINAL CORRECTED AND ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT FOR "THE SPRING RUNNING," THE BITTERSWEET RETURN OF MOWGLI TO THE WORLD OF MAN AND THE FINAL MOWGLI STORY. Beginning in 1893, Kipling wrote the captivating cycle of stories collected as The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. He completed the saga in March 1895 with this story, "The Second Running," in which Mowgli, now the King of the Jungle, says goodbye to the jungle in order to return to the world of man, and as (we learned in the opening story of The Jungle Book) get married and live among men. "Man goes to man," as the poem goes.
The typescript appears to follow the holograph manuscript held by the British Library, with the typist's notations on the first page indicating that this may have been typed from that manuscript. Kipling's autograph corrections, some significant, appear in the final published work, although there are additional differences between the typescript and the published version, indicating a further revision before publication, possibly in proof.
Kipling manuscripts relating to his major works are rare. This annotated typed manuscript, along with five others from The Jungle Book, last appeared at auction in 1991. We trace no other manuscript from The Jungle Book at auction in the interim. Mowgli, his story preserved many times in film, is Kipling's greatest contribution to literature and popular culture, and Mowgli's departure from the jungle, leaving the storied adventure of his youth behind, one of the story's most poignant moments.
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