NMLP P-039611 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · The Century Co. (New York) — true first; Macmillan & Co. (London) — first English · 1895

The cardinal textual point of the first ENGLISH edition is the truncated 'The King's Ankus': the first English edition ends at the words 'lay the ruby-and-turquoise ankus,' inadvertently omitting the final c.500 words in which Mowgli returns the treasure to its hiding place to prevent further killings

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039611 for "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039611, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).