Lot 270
Kipling, Rudyard
The Jungle Book
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt edges, frontispiece and text-illustrations, binding rubbed and marked, slightly shaken, lacking pp. 153-6, pp. 149-52 loose, occasional finger-soiling, marginal tear to pp. 133/4 old manuscript note tipped to front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank. Together with 8 others including A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (first edition, 1928, original cloth, dust jacket), Winnie-the-Pooh, (second edition, 1926, original cloth, dust jacket, Now We Are Six (2 copies, second and third editions, both 1927, original cloth, third edition with dust jacket), When We Were Very Young (2 copies, thirteenth and sixteenth editions, 1926-7, original cloth, sixteenth edition with dust jacket)