Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
KIPLING, RUDYARD. The Second Jungle Book. Decorations by John Lockwood Kipling. 8vo, original cloth stamped in orange and gilt, slightly askew, overall rubbing, spine tips slightly fraying, corners bumped; top edges gilt; old ownership signature partially erased from rear endpaper. New York: The Century Co., 1895

Additional Details

first american edition, signed. With an additional poetic inscription that reads: 'Now these are the Laws of the Jungle; and, many & mighty / are they — / But the head and the hoof of the Law, and the haunch and the hump / is Obey." should be seen.