The Jungle Book.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Published by London: Macmilllan & Co., 1894

First edition in book form. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India, The Jungle Book was first published in periodicals in 1893-4, before it was printed in book form in 1894. An immediate success on publication, the book was reprinted twice the same year and twice again in 1895. Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; he was the first English-language writer, and the youngest ever, to receive the prize. The present book, and its sequel The Second Jungle Book (1895), were loosely adapted into the 1967 and 2016 Disney movies of the same name. Grolier Children's 100, 52. Octavo (180 x 118 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. Light foxing throughout, an excellent copy in a fine binding. Seller Inventory # 162035

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Jungle Book.
Publisher: London: Macmilllan & Co., 1894
Edition: 1st Edition