KIPLING, Rudyard.

The Jungle Book.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1909.

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"SHERE KHAN SPEAKS THIS MUCH TRUTH. THE CUB MUST BE SHOWN TO THE PACK": First Detmold colour illustrated edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

First Detmold color illustrated edition of Kipling's best-known work. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles and decorations to the spine and front panel, with illustrations in color by Maurice and Edward Detmold including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Rare.

Kipling's Jungle Books center on the story of Mowgli, an orphaned 'man-cub' who is raised in the jungle of India by wolves where he comes to learn the Laws of the Jungle. A major theme throughout the books is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. Another is law vs. freedom; the stories are not about animal behavior, but about human archetypes in animal form. The books remain popular to this day and have been adapted several times for film and other media, including the classic Walt Disney 1967 animation and its 2016 remake.