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three books with illustrations of animals on them sitting on a tablea picture of a book that is open on a tablean open book with a picture of a man and a woman on itan open book with a picture of a frog on itan open book with a picture of an elephant on itan open book with a picture of a man sitting on a rock
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237 - COLLOT (André) & KIPLING (Rudyard).
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Estimate €300 - €500
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COLLOT (André) & KIPLING (Rudyard). The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Robert d’Humières. Illustrated with colour drawings by André Collot, wood-engraved in two tones by Jean Vital Prost. Paris, Georges Briffault, 1938. 2 vols. in-4, paperback, illustrated covers with filled-in areas, in slipcases and boxes. A work illustrated with a great many colour woodcuts within the text. Print run of 1,025 copies; No. 16 of 25 on Imperial Japan paper, containing a separate set of two-tone woodcuts, two ORIGINAL DRAWINGS (the proof copy mentions only one) and here enhanced with an original signed and numbered colour etching, presented by the publisher. A very fine copy on Japanese paper, signed by the author with a dedication on the colophon, accompanied by a handwritten note from the publisher.
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Auction time 09/09/2026 at 1:00 PM
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