COMPLETE JUNGLE BOOK: The Definitive Macmillan Edition

Book number: 90184 Product format: Hardback Author: RUDYARD KIPLING

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Bibliophile price £21.00
Published price £35


A big, beautiful heavyweight tome with jungle green foil embossed leathering on a cutaway bright white decorated cover and with metallic green page edges and satin green pagemarker, here is the complete Jungle Book featuring all your favourite characters from Mowgli to Baloo and including both The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. Mowgli's Country As Seen by Chil the Kite, How to Say the Names in this Book, A Glossary, The Cat Who Walked by Himself, Pussy Can Sit By the Fire and Sing, If - the Story of the Complete Jungle Book and Publisher's Note, all included in this beautiful volume. It is exquisitely illustrated by Stuart Tresilian who was commissioned by the publishers Macmillan during the 1930s and whose sharp line drawings we all remember from our first copies. Tiger! Tiger!, Rikki-Tikki Tavi, Kaa's Hunting, and Mowgli's Brothers, here is the youth, beauty and culture of many Indian villages, their people, manners and customs. From the 1902 Macmillan edition of Just So Stories is The Cat Who Walked by Himself and of course If - is Kipling's most famous poem, 470 very large quality pages including rare material from Macmillan's historical archive around the publication of the stories and Kipling's home and study in rare photographs and original jacket designs and cover art. Beautiful big green edged pages, exquisite colour artworks and woodcut illustrations, foreword by Katherine Rundell.
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ISBN 9781509841851
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