The dust jacket has minor damage or small tear. Hardcover Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The best of Kipling?s poems have much in common with English folk songs and ballads and are marked by dynamic rhythms, somewhat coarse humor, and vivid vernacular language. Kipling?s works for children are particularly popular, especially the tales about the life of the child Mowgli among the animals of the jungle (The Jungle Book, 1894; Second Jungle Book, 1895). Kipling received the Nobel Prize in 1907.