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Kipling, Rudyard

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Description

  • Kipling, Rudyard
  • The Second Jungle Book. New York: The Century Company, 1899
  • paper
8vo. In text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, black and blind. A fine and bright copy.

Catalogue Note

A very personal presentation from Kipling to his publisher "Effendi's" adopted son, with a holograph poem, "Jack Doty from the author / Mar 28: 99/ Rudyard Kipling."

"Jack" Doty is presumably the young Felix Doty, a Louisiana boy that Frank N. Doubleday adopted. Kipling and Doubleday enjoyed a life-long friendship that began when the future publisher met Kipling while working for Scribner's. It was Kipling that gave Frank N Doubleday the "Effendi" nickname and he advised  Doubleday on how and when to set up his own imprint, Doubleday McClure, in 1897. Doubleday would become Kipling's American publisher for his new works for the remainder of the author's career.

With a four line quotation from The Jungle Book  penned by Kipling on the verso of the half-title:  "Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip / drink deeply but never too deep / And remember the night is for hunting ' and forget not the day is for sleep/ R.K." (from "the Law of the Jungle")