29 LITERATURE “An Honorable Place In Any Library Of Children’s Books” 38KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, original giltstamped pictorial blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $6900 First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure and excitement.” “Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham, 36). “The child who has never run with Mowgli’s wolf pack, or stood with Parnesius and Pertinax to defend the Northern Wall… has missed something that he will not get from any other writer” (Carpenter & Prichard, 297). Illustrated largely by W. H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J. Lockwood Kipling, “this most desirable pair… will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87). “Of the seven stories and seven poems comprising The Jungle Book, only the stories had previously appeared in periodicals (in 1893 and 1894), and when collected here, each story had an additional verse heading appended.” With numerous in-text and 20 full-page illustrations including frontispiece. First English edition of Second Jungle Book issued only three days after the American edition. Without rarely found dust jackets. Livingston 104, 116. Light scattered foxing to interiors, only slight rubbing and toning to spines, gilt bright. A handsome set in extremely good condition. First Edition Of The Story Of Doctor Dolittle, Inscribed By Hugh Lofting—The Copy Of Horn Book Founder Bertha Mahoney Miller 37LOFTING, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. New York, 1920. Octavo, original bluestamped orange cloth, custom clamshell box. $7800 First edition of the first Doctor Dolittle title, with color frontispiece, two plates, and 30 in-text blackand-white illustrations, inscribed: “Sincerely Yours, Hugh Lofting. Jan. 15 21.” The copy of Bertha Mahoney Miller, founder and editor of The Horn Book Magazine. “Creator of the most famous vet of all time (pace James Herriot)—and what a wonderfully sane loony Dr. Doolittle is. The books are absolutely irresistible and deathless—as well as being immensely stylish… Very much collected, as is right and proper” (Connolly, Children’s Modern First Editions, 189). Without scarce original dust jacket. With the posthumous bookplate of Bertha Mahoney Miller, who founded The Horn Book Magazine, the first periodical to deal only with children’s literature. Faint child’s signature. Only slight wear to bright original cloth. A scarce nearfine inscribed copy with an interesting provenance.
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