The Jungle Book. With Illustrations in Colour by Maurice and Edward Detmold. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE COLOUR EDITION
Rare and modern books
Kipling Rudyard
Macmillan,
1931
The Jungle Book. With Illustrations in Colour by Maurice and Edward Detmold. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE COLOUR EDITION
Rare and modern books
Kipling Rudyard
Macmillan,
1931
211.60 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1931
- Author
- Kipling Rudyard
- Publishers
- Macmillan
- Keyword
- modern first editions, modern firsts, kipling, rudyard kipling, jungle book, detmold, edward detmold, maurice detmold
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 15 fine coloured plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, small pull at headband else a near fine copy. A remarkably bright, clean copy. Kipling's most famous prose work was first issued with coloured illustrations in 1908. See Livingston, p.36.; Stewart 125.
