Books

London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First editions, in custom slipcase. With the bookplates of famed book collector Arthur Amory Houghton. An excellent set with spine of The Jungle Book slightly leaning, mild toning to pages, bindings with hint of wear to edges and spine tips, front hinge of The Second Jungle Book starting.

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.