The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover edition with tattered illustrated dj (edges). Color frontis and forword by Nelson Doubleday. Full page b/w and color illustrations among 253 clean pages.
Synopsis
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills . After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book . He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on January 18, 1936.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032424Y
- Title
- The Jungle Book
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Illustrator
- Aldren Watson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 253
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- stories