B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S H O L I D A Y G I F T S * 2 0 2 3 "AN HONORABLE PLACE IN ANY LIBRARY OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS," IN EXQUISITE PICTORIAL BINDINGS BY RIVIERE AND SON 12. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York: Macmillan, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, 20th-century full blue morocco, elaborately gilt spines and boards, with colored morocco onlays, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth bound in rear; housed in a custom solander box. $9000 First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure and excitement,” beautifully bound by Riviere & Son in elaborately gilt morocco with pictorial onlays on all four boards, with original cloth bound in. “Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham, 36). “The child who has never run with Mowgli’s wolf pack, or stood with Parnesius and Pertinax to defend the Northern Wall… has missed something that he will not get from any other writer” (Carpenter & Prichard, 297). Illustrated largely by W.H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J. Lockwood Kipling, “this most desirable pair… will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87). First edition of Jungle Book containing the imprint “R. & R. Clark” that appears in the “first copies… [of] the first print run… in later printings it is ‘R. & R. Clark Ltd.” (Richards A76); with numerous in-text and 20 full-page illustrations including frontispiece. First English edition of Second Jungle Book issued only three days after the American edition, containing numerous in-text illustrations, decorative initials and head- and tailpieces: with first edition imprint “R. & R. Clark, Limited” (238), rear advertisement leaf. A beautiful pair of volumes with expertly repaired joints. About-fine condition. 12
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