English Literature

Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book [with] The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1894 & 1895. Illustrations after J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. Publisher's gilt-pictorial blue cloth, green-coated endpapers, gilt edges; light wear at extremities. Half red morocco slipcase, chemises. First editions. (Grolier/Kipling 185, 197; Stewart 123, 132) — Soldier Tales. London: Macmillan, 1896. Plates after S. Wantype, text illustrations. Publisher's gilt-pictorial blue cloth. Publisher's buff dust jacket, printed in blue; a few tears and small chips, bookseller's description tipped to front flap, bookplate of Z. A. Dixson. Half red morocco slipcase, chemise. First edition. (Grolier/Kipling 216; Stewart 157) — H. G. Wells. The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1897. Half-title, terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements; lightly browned. Publisher's red pictorial gilt-lettered cloth; slight rubbing to extremities. Half black morocco slipcase, chemise. First edition. (Bromley Coll. 234; Hammond B4) — Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 2 vols. Publisher's blind-panelled maroon cloth; spines faded, some small stains to front cover of first vol. Half green morocco slipcase, chemises. First edition, first issue. (Smith 2:3)



Together 4 works in 6 volumes, various sizes.

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First editions. Soldier Tales is an unusually bright copy, preserved in the rare dust jacket. Pearson's publications are noted for poor paper and weak bindings, but the present copy of The Invisible Man is very good.