The Second Jungle Book.

London: Macmillan and Co.,, 1895. First edition in book form of the complementary volume to Kipling's best-known prose work. An immediate success on publication, The Jungle Book (1894) was followed by this title, which "completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that relate closely to those in the first book and that are essential to its emotional rounding-out" (Grolier). In 1907 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Kipling "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". He was the first English-language writer, and the youngest ever, to receive the prize. Kipling's stories have had a long-standing hold on the public imagination and those included here were loosely adapted into the 1967 and 2016 Disney movies of the same name. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt devices on spine and front cover, green-coated endpapers, edges gilt. Illustrations in the text by William Henry Drake, Paul Frenzeny, and the author's father John Lockwood Kipling. Slight rubbing at extremities, spine ends and one corner gently bumped, the binding otherwise bright and sound, faint foxing to contents. A very good copy with the blue and gilt covers still vibrant. Grolier Children's 100, 52.