NMLP P-039615 — The Second Jungle Book

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

The title predates the book-club era and no book-club issue exists. The dominant reprint is the Macmillan (London) Standard Edition, published and frequently reprinted between 1899 and 1950 — it is in this and every other reprint that the restored 'King's Ankus' text appears (at p. 173 of the Standard Edition), so any copy with the complete ending is not the first English printing. Later Century printings are likewise common. As with all Kipling, the gilt elephant and Ganesha devices persist across reprints and are not by themselves a first-edition point.

New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-039615 for "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039615, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).