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First American edition With a frontispiece and 34 illustrated plates. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and gilt vignette on the upper cover, blindstamped designs, gilt pictorial vignettes and gilt lettering on the spine. xviii, 303. A bright and clean copy, some light spotting occasionally as is typical, the backstrip lightly mellowed. Kipling s classic work on life in the jungle. Kipling s best loved work. The Jungle Book represents a collection of Kipling s best loved stories for children. The first stories are built around the premise of a human child lost in the jungles and raised by wild animals. Among the noted characters are Mowgli the child, Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. The beloved tale of Riki Tiki Tavi is also among these enchanting stories.

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is the Seonee Hills, now known as the Seoni District in Madhya Pradesh.