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Title: The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book Author: Kipling, Rudyard Place: London Publisher: Macmillan and Co. Date: 1894, 1895 Description: Includes: vi, [2], 212 pp. With 20 full-page illustrations of drawings and engravings (including frontispiece, with tissue-guard), by J. Lockwood Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny; plus vignettes within the text. 1894. The Second Jungle Book. [6], 238 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling. Blue gilt-stamped cloth with cobra on front cover, man with python on spine. 1895. Together two volumes. 18.5x12.7 cm (7¼x4¾"), gilt-decorated dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Editions. Kipling's famed Jungle Books in the original cloth. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear to boards, rubbing of extremities, spines leaning a bit; front and rear hinge cracked in vol. I, gift inscription dated 1894 on half-title, ownership signature on preliminary page also in vol. I, scattered foxing; very good. Item number: 262217