
Lot Details
Lot 59
GHOSH, SARATH, Prince The Wonders of the Jungle.
Boston, New York, and Chicago: D. C. Heath & Co., [1915]. First edition. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 7 1/4 x 5 inches; vii, 190 pp.; frontispiece, plates. Cloth a bit rubbed with one or two pale stains, light foxing and staining to endpapers, child's ownership inscription to front pastedown.
A collection of short stories for children featuring animals native to India. Book One only. "Children who are kind to all animals grow up to be men and women who are kind to other people. And it is only by being kind to others that we ourselves deserve to be happy and are happy" (p. 189). Uncommon in the trade.
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