The Jungle Book
( [Edward DETMOLD ) ( [Maurice DETMOLD ) KIPLING, Rudyard
With Illustrations in Colour by Maurice and Edward Detmold.
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE COLOUR EDITION
Published: Macmillan, 1931
Stock code: 30463
Price: £184.00
8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 15 fine coloured plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, small pull at headband else a near fine copy.
A remarkably bright, clean copy. Kipling's most famous prose work was first issued with coloured illustrations in 1908. See Livingston, p.36.; Stewart 125.