KIPLING, Rudyard. Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling and W.H. Drake.
The Jungle Books.
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books; Exquisitely Bound
London: Macmillan, c. 1960.
$1,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-148237
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Finely bound edition of both volumes of Kipling's Jungle Books. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E., and W.H. Drake. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli, an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior, but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media, including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake.
The Jungle Books.
$1,500.00
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