Guess what I got this time? A 1918 printing of the first edition of both Jungle Books! In solid red leather binding with gold designs. And, the weirdest thing, which I didn't know until I've opened them, the books are inscribed to someone who had their birthday on February 18th, 1919. Which is also my birthday, just a bit before my time. Weird, huh?
I've read the russian translation of the Mowgli Stories when I was about six, before seeing any sort of cartoons, and was completely taken by the idea of living wild. Grown-up, I've been finding influences of that book in my psyche all over the place. So I decided to feed this little old fancy with a nifty 90 year old treat, even though I have all the Mowgli stories (including In The Rukh, not found in the JBs) already.
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