Books

THE JUNGLE BOOK, Century, 1894, first American edition, a tight, bright vg+ copy in the publishers original gold-gilt pictorial binding. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).

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.