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The jungle book
Title
The jungle book / by Rudyard Kipling ; with illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny.
Edition
[First English edition].
Publication
London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1894.
Physical Description
vi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Ip K628 894j Copy 1: In case with The second jungle book ... 1895.
BEIN Ip K628 894j Copy 2: In case with The second jungle book ... 1895.
BEIN 2000 1182: Title page dated 1894. "First edition May 1894. Reprinted June 1894"--Title page verso. Bookplate: Tyler Kipling Collection.
BEIN Richards Kipling 576: Bound in dark blue crisscross cloth, lettered, ruled and illustrated in gilt. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
BEIN Richards Kipling 2731: Title page dated 1896. "First edition 1894. Reprinted 1894 (twice), 1895, 1896"--Title page verso. Bound in dark blue crisscross cloth, lettered, ruled and illustrated in gilt. Presentation inscription from Caroline Kipling to Gertrude Colborne Blogg, possibly in author's handwriting. Signed by author. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
BEIN 2024 678: Inscribed to the American Admiral, Austin Strong by Robert Louis Stevenson. From the E. J. Beinecke Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Provenance
LC copy in slipcase with: The second jungle book / Rudyard Kipling. London : Macmillan, 1895. Gift: Leonard Kebler, Dec. 20, 1949.
Summary
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
Other formats
Online version: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Jungle book. London ; New York : Macmillan, 1894
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Mowgli's brothers
Hunting-song of the Seeonee pack
Kaa's hunting
Road-song of the Bandar-log
"Tiger-Tiger!"
Mowgli's song
The white seal
Lukannon
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
Darzee's chaunt
Toomai of the elephants
Shiv and the grasshopper
Servants of the queen
Parade-song of the camp-animals.
References
Robert Louis Stevenson Collection (Yale University. Library). Stevenson library, entry 7914
Stewart, J.M. Rudyard Kipling, 123
Livingston, F.V.M. Bibliography of the works of Rudyard Kipling, 104
Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1993
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
children's books.
Action and adventure fiction
Fiction
Action and adventure fiction.
Juvenile literature.
Pictorial cloth bindings.
Gilt edges.
Juvenile literature.
Also listed under
E. J. Beinecke Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Macmillan & Co., publisher.
England London.
United States New York (State) New York.
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