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Second American edition. Green cloth binding with gilt letters and black illustrations on cover (elephant) and lavishly illustrated throughout. Former owner's name on first page, binding at corners slightly rubbed, corner of one page small clip in corner, otherwise a very fine copy of this early edition.

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.