The Two Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
1926. Reprinted thin paper edition. 576 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustration by J. Lockwood Kipling. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Prize dedication to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is strongly dulled on all surfaces.