NMLP P-028519 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · Macmillan and Co. · 1894

The London Macmillan 1894 edition and the New York Century Co. 1894 edition were issued very close together (reported as the same day), so precedence between them is not clean; the British Macmillan issue is conventionally treated as the first. The two are easily distinguished: Macmillan in blue pictorial cloth, Century in olive-green cross-hatched cloth with a dust jacket.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028519 for "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028519, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).