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ONE OF TWO KNOWN CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATION COPIES KIPLING, Rudyard THE JUNGLE BOOK Macmillan, 1894 [46676] Second impression, issued just a few of weeks after the first print - ing in the identical format. Original blue cloth with gilt vignettes to upper cover and spine, gilt borders and titles. All edges gilt.
famous and a key work of children’s literature. Hugh Edward Poynter, who was 12 at the time of the presentation, was part of the artistic Poyn- ter family and Kipling’s cousin of via their respective mothers, who were part of the MacDonald family: Louisa (Stanley Baldwin’s mother), Geor - gina (who married Edward Burne Jones), Alice (Kipling’s mother) and Agnes (who married Sir Edward Poynter). Contemporary presentation copies of The Jungle Book are of the utmost scarcity and practically unheard of in commerce. A survey of institution - al holdings and auction records over the last hundred years reveals no other sales of genuine presentation copies, and just three signed cop- ies all of which were solicited. The only other known known authorial presentation copy, is the Wimpole Hall copy (now held by the National Trust), inscribed by Kipling to his daughter on publication. KIPLING, Rudyard THE JUNGLE BOOK with THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK Macmillan, 1894, 1895 [45854] Two volumes, both first editions. Finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in full blue morocco with inlaid leath - er scenes to the upper cover of each volume depicting an elephant and a bear, surrounded by an ornamental gilt border. Raised bands to spine with gilt titles and vignettes. Gilt decorated turn-ins and marbled endpa - pers, all edges gilt. Illustrations in black and white by J. Lockwood Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. A fine set in a handsome and elaborate binding, housed in a fleece-lined, cloth slipcase. $6,500 SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING LE FANU, J. Sheridan UNCLE SILAS A Tale Of Bar- tram-Haugh Richard Bentley, 1864 [42809] First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Half-titles present. Bound (possibly for the publisher) in contemporary quarter roan over pebble-grained cloth boards, the covers ruled in blind, the spine lettered and decorated gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Each volume housed in a later cloth slip - case. A very near fine set, the bindings very well-preserved with just a touch of rubbing to the head of the spines of the first two volumes. Generally clean internally, with sporadic light spot - ting. $26,000
Author’s presentation copy, in- scribed on the title page to his nephew, “Hugh Poynter from
Ruddy. June. 1894”. Poynter’s juvenile ownership inscription in scarcely visible pencil to the front endpaper, noting it was given by Kipling at his school, and his later ink monogram to verso of frontispiece. Illustrations in black and white by J. Lockwood Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. A very good copy, bright and tight with just a little wear to the spine ends. $21,500 An exceptional presentation copy of the book for which Kipling is most
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