March 2021 Catalogue

31 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “For The Strength Of The Pack Is The Wolf, And The Strength Of The Wolf Is The Pack” 29. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full blue morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $6250. Click for more info First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure and excitement,” handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun, with original cloth covers and spines bound in. From the library of Eugene Field. “Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of Kipling’smost 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). From the library of American author Eugene Field, with a manuscript note to that effect written by his son Eugene Field II on the rear flyleaf of Volume I, signed by him and notarized, with the public notary’s signature and blindstamp. Faint foxing to endpapers, first and last few leaves, expert repair to joints and spine ends. A near-fine set, beautifully bound, with a nice literary provenance. “Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle.”