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1890615157New York: National Publishing Co 1890. Softcover. Good. The Red Letter Series edition issued August 23 1890 with a stamp on the front cover that reads "Special Edition." Publisher's catalog in back. Illustrated wrappers. Three pages of the catalog have a chunk torn out wrappers worn and soiled a good or better copy. Features a number of advertisements some with illustrations. One ad is for Burnette's Cocoaine sic claiming that it cures dandruff and "promotes the growth and preserves the beauty of the human hair." OCLC locates only seven holdings of this Red Letter Series edition. National Publishing Co unknown
189018867London: Sampson Low Marston & Company. Good with No dust jacket as issued. c1890. Softcover. Tears to paper spine. Lower 2" of paper spine missing. Wrappers with foxing and fading and some small chips to margins. Some patches of foxing to page edges. Previous owner's signature dated 1892 on title page.; Stated "Seventh Edition" on title page. No date c1890. 93 1 pages 1 page advertisements. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 214 x 140mm. Title page has imprint of Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. Allahabad; and of Sampson Low Marson & Company London. Series title: 'A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library' No. 2. Rear cover with text advertisement for Pears' Soap. . Sampson Low, Marston & Company paperback
189018866London: Sampson Low Marston & Company. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. c1890. Softcover. Spine replaced with cloth tape and inner hinges roughly reinforced with strips of thin card. Inner margins of wrappers reinforced with strips of thin card. Tape repairs to small 1/2" tears at margins of title leaf. Previous owner's signature dated 1895 on front cover.; Stated "Sixth Edition" on title page. No date c1890. 96 pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. Title page has imprint of Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. Allahabad; and of Sampson Low Marson & Company London. Series title: 'A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library' No. 4. Rear cover with text advertisement for Pears' Soap. "And the Hospital Orderly was so satisfied with the justice of the punishment that he did not even order Private Dormer back to his cot." - the final sentence. . Sampson Low, Marston & Company paperback
1893003865New York: Macmillan Company 1893. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads" by Rudyard Kipling. New edition stated on title page. Published by Macmillan Company New York 1893. Measures 5" x 7.25" 217 pages. The book is in very good condition. Top edge gilt. The boards are well preserved with light shelf wear. The spine is sun faded. Gilt illustration on front board and lettering on the spine are still bright and vibrant. The book is slightly cocked with an overbite. Previous owner's inscription dated 1894 on the front endpaper. The interior is fresh and well preserved. The binding is solid. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #K1-27. Macmillan Company hardcover
1900100000297Philadelphia: Henry Altemus 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. FIRST. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. vg/- marron hardcover bright clean tight binding and case newspaper articles laid in chipped half title otherwise quite new looking. Henry Altemus Hardcover
1897FB5364 /21<p>spine slightly faded. Navy cloth binding with tan title plate and gilt title on the spine.</p><p>Condition: Near Fine. Copyright edition.</p><p>The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895 it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories all but one set in India most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894–5 often under different titles. The 1994 film The Jungle Book used it as a source.</p><p>Each story is followed by a related poem:</p><ol><li><p>"How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. During a drought Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken Wainganga River for a "Water Truce" where the display of the blue-colored Peace Rock prevents anyone from hunting at its riverbanks. After Shere Khan was driven away by him for nearly defiling the Peace Rock Hathi the elephant tells Mowgli the story of how the first tiger got his stripes when fear first came to the jungle. This story can be seen as a forerunner of the Just So Stories.</p></li><li><p>"The Law of the Jungle" poem</p></li><li><p>"The Miracle of Purun Bhagat": An influential Indian politician abandons his worldly goods to become an ascetic holy man. Later he must save a village from a landslide with the help of the local animals whom he has befriended.</p></li><li><p>"A Song of Kabir" poem</p></li><li><p>"Letting in the Jungle": Mowgli has been driven out of the human village for witchcraft and the superstitious villagers are preparing to kill his adopted parents Messua and her unnamed husband. Mowgli rescues them and then prepares to take revenge.</p></li><li><p>"Mowgli's Song Against People" poem</p></li><li><p>"The Undertakers": A mugger crocodile a jackal and a Greater adjutant stork three of the most unpleasant characters on the river spend an afternoon bickering with each other until some Englishmen arrive to settle some unfinished business with the crocodile.</p></li><li><p>"A Ripple Song" poem</p></li><li><p>"The King's Ankus": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs which he later discards carelessly not realising that men will kill each other to possess it. Note: The first edition of The Second Jungle Book inadvertently omits the final 500 words of this story in which Mowgli returns the treasure to its hiding-place to prevent further killings. Although the error was corrected in later printings it was picked up by some later editions.</p></li><li><p>"The Song of the Little Hunter" poem</p></li><li><p>"Quiquern": A teenaged Inuit boy and girl set out across the arctic ice on a desperate hunt for food to save their tribe from starvation guided by the mysterious animal-spirit Quiquern. However Quiquern is not what he seems.</p></li><li><p>"Angutivaun Taina" poem</p></li><li><p>"Red Dog": Mowgli's wolfpack is threatened by a pack of rampaging dholes. Mowgli asks Kaa the python to help him formulate a plan to defeat them.</p></li><li><p>"Chil's Song" poem</p></li><li><p>"The Spring Running": Mowgli now almost seventeen years old is growing restless for reasons he cannot understand. On an aimless run through the jungle he stumbles across the village where his adopted mother Messua is now living with her two-year-old son and is torn between staying with her and returning to the jungle.</p></li><li><p>"The Outsong" poem</p></li></ol><p><strong>Joseph Rudyard Kipling </strong>30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English novelist short-story writer poet and journalist. He was born in British India which inspired much of his work.</p><p>Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology The Jungle Book 1894; The Second Jungle Book 1895 Kim 1901 the Just So Stories 1902 and many short stories including "The Man Who Would Be King" 1888. His poems include "Mandalay" 1890 "Gunga Din" 1890 "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" 1919 "The White Man's Burden" 1899 and "If—" 1910. He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".</p><p>Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius as distinct from fine intelligence that I have ever known." In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first English-language writer to receive the prize and at 41 its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood but declined both. Following his death in 1936 his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.</p><p>Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes he is recognised as an incomparable if controversial interpreter of how the empire was experienced. That and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts make him a force to be reckoned with."</p> Bernhard Tauchnitz. hardcover
1900mon0000189457Macmillan and Co Ltd 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover clean text sound binding. 1960 third edition. Macmillan and Co Ltd hardcover