The Jungle Book

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 0670802417 / ISBN 13: 9780670802418

Published by Viking Kestrel, London, 1989

About this Item

Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ with slight sunning to spine, previous owner details in large black marker pen to inside cover and endpaper. ; Third printing, 1989. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, appears unread. ; B&W and Colour Illustrations; 176 pages; Kipling's set of animal stories including tales of Mowgli and his animal friends, and the thrilling fight of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. New illustrations and colour plates by Michael Foreman.

Seller Inventory # 7615

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jungle Book
• Publisher: Viking Kestrel, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670802417
• ISBN 13: 9780670802418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Foreman, Michael
• Edition: Third Printing.
• Condition: Very Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems including Mandalay, Gunga Din, and Danny Deeverwhich made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kimwhich became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936