Kipling, Rudyard | Superlative copies of classic works

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book, [and] The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894-1895

2 works, 8vo (186 x 123 mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered, pictorial designs on upper covers and spines, black coated endpapers, edges gilt; gathering loose or shaken at p. 80 of Second Jungle Book, but binding is tight. Housed in custom clamshell case. 

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“Now, don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. That’s the worst kind of cowardice,” said the troop-horse. “Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night, I think, if they see things they don’t understand."

REFERENCE:

Livingston 104, 116; Martindell 61, 63; Stewart 123, 132