[Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully bound set of THE JUNGLE BOOKS by Rudyard Kipling

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Last-Minute Gift List now posted on our website. It is 
comprised of 75 items priced from $10 to $30,000 and includes both new 
arrivals and selections from stock, mostly illustrated books, classics, 
fine bindings, and limited editions. We can get any of these to you by
Christmas if ordered by Thursday, December 20.
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KIPLING,  Rudyard.  THE  JUNGLE BOOKS: THE JUNGLE  BOOK  with  THE
SECOND  JUNGLE  BOOK.  London:  Macmillan and Co.  1897;  1895.
Two  volumes, Sixth Printing of the first volume and  Second
Printing  of  the  second.  Both uniformly and  beautifully  bound  by
Bayntun  in  full midnight blue morocco with  elaborate  multi-colored
matching  morocco  onlays  on the front covers depicting  an  elephant
walking  beneath a palm tree and gilt animal (wolf and panther)  heads
on  the  rear covers and on the spine panels which are also ruled  and
lettered  in gilt; five raised bands; gilt dentelles, all edges  gilt;
marbled  endpapers;  original  cloth  covers bound  in  at  the  rear.
Illustrated  by  J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny.  Trivial
wear,  touch  of  sunning to spines. Very striking set.  Fine  copies,
beautifully bound.                                            $3000.00


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