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plates. Binding firm, contents with light foxing; very good. ¶ ESTC T119018. £1,250 [154319] 110 KINGDON-WARD, Frank. From China to Hkamti Long. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924 “A KEEN OBSERVATION OF BOTANICAL DETAIL AND GRASP OF PLANT ECOLOGY” First edition of this account by the master plant- collector of his second attempt to journey overland from the Yunnan border to India. On his arrival in Myikyina, he became only the fourth Westerner to manage this feat. After two opening chapters covering Kingdon- Ward’s 1921 approach to Muli via Laishio, Menghwa, Tali, and Yungning, the book chronicles his expedition from Muli to the valley of the Taron in the following year. He mixes socio-cultural observations with his typically trenchant insights into horticulture and plant geography. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in yellow, fore- and bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Halftone frontispiece, 15 halftone plates, folding map of author’s route. Spine ends lightly rubbed, boards a little dusty, occasional spotting to edges, internally clean and bright. A near-fine copy in the very good dust jacket with light soiling and several chips and nicks. ¶ Troelstra, pp. 238–245; Yakushi K74. £1,250 [153935]
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111 KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; [together with:] — The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894 & 1895 BEAUTIFUL BINDINGS echoing THE ORIGINAL CLOTH DESIGNS First editions in book form of Kipling’s best-known prose work, finely bound for Asprey. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India, The Jungle Book was first published in periodicals in 1893 and 1894. An immediate success on publication, it was reprinted twice in 1894 and twice again the following year. “Kipling followed with The Second Jungle Book (1895), but the two sets of stories have rarely been united, despite the fact that the later book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that relate closely
to those in the first book and that are essential to its emotional rounding-out” (Grolier). Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; he was the first English-language writer, and the youngest ever, to receive the prize. 2 works, octavo (180 × 118 mm). Mid-20th-century blue calf for Asprey, spines in compartments, raised bands tooled in gilt, compartments lettered and tooled in gilt, double rule frames with foliate cornerpieces in gilt to covers, pictorial designs replicating those on the original cloth bindings in gilt to front covers, turn-ins tooled in gilt, blue marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Frontispiece to The Jungle Book , illustrations in the text of both volumes, by William Henry Drake, Paul Frenzeny, and the author’s father John Lockwood Kipling. Spines very lightly sunned, a couple of surface scuffs to leather, book blocks square, gilt remarkably bright, very occasional flecks of foxing to The Second Jungle Book ; a near-fine pair. ¶ Grolier Children’s 100, 52; Richards A76 & A85. £5,250 [153484]
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