KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book [In Original Publisher's 1894 Dustjacket]. New York: The Century Co., 1894.

First American Edition. Original green cloth, embossed designs and gilt lettering and illustrations at spine and covers. Illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. This copy with most of the original publisher's printed [and illustrated with elephant at front panel] tan and green stamped dustjacket. "Love of animals, imagination about animals, the placing of anthropomorphic words in their mouths, is the prevailing whim of the English, and The Jungle Books, for that reason, have brought joy and enthusiasm to many a heart. Mowgli, the wolf-child, and wolf-reared children are true things. Baloo, and Bagheera and Kaa are not only household words in our nurseries and school-rooms, they are the wisdom of the ages and the pleasure of the hour in the studies and boudoirs of the parents. Rikki-tikki-Tavi is supreme in the hearts of our old ladies. Toomai of the Elephants is sheer Kheddah lore. A great mastering of the wild forest and its fauna, of the aboriginal folk whom Jan Chinn controlled, is herein displayed, a lore before which the scientist will bow down." [ George MacMunn, in Rudyard Kipling, Craftsman]. Near Fine attractive copy, previous owner name at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, lacking front flap and top two inches of front panel.

Price: $4,000.00