THE JUNGLE BOOK

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt illustration to the upper board and gilt titles to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece, 15 further full page colour plates and chapter headings illustrated in black and white by the Detmold brothers. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some softening and mild fraying at the spine tips and corners. The cloth is a touch faded to the spine and board edges. The contents are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. There is some foxing and offsetting to the endpapers and a few isolated spots to the margins throughout. A few of the plate pages have a faint moisture mark to the very upper edge of the blank margin (not affecting any text or illustration). The pages are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

An attractive example of this beautifully illustrated classic.