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Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft The Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers have very slight wear. ; Gold lettering on binding (first state) .
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue pictorial cloth over boards. Edges are worn. Top of spine pulled. Pages are toned, a little marginal soiling. Second issue.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Abaft the Funnel. Kipling, Rudyard. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Novel. Pirated edition. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends frayed, spine faded. Interior clean, pages toned, top edge dusty.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
KIPLING.RUDYARD. ABAFT THE FUNNEL.. B.W.DODGE AND COMPANY,NEW YORK.1909., 1909.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PIRATE EDITION.FIRST STATE OF FIRST PRINTING.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. ABAFT THE FUNNEL.. B.W. Dodge & Company, New York: ., 1909.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. viii, 360. Title page ruled in black. Small nick on fore edge. Sm. 8vo. 195mm. Original full dark blue cloth binding lettered in red. Front board decorated with a sailing ship with sky and water drawn in black. Head and tail of spine rubbed and worn with slight loss. "There was but one edition published by Dodge, but there is a binding variant--later copies have the lettering on front cover and spine in red instead of gold." [Stewart 324]. Hardbound. Very good. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 3 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge, New York, 1909.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light rubbing at corners. Deep blue cloth with black and gilt decoration. Small bit of plain paper adheres to front paste-down endpaper -- probable bookplate remnant. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 360 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. Abaft the Funnel.. B.W. Dodge and Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An unauthorized edition. First issue, dark midnight blue with black illustration, stamped in gilt, issued without dustwrapper. 360pp. A Near Fine copy, endpapers restored, minor rubbing to points, spine-ends. Q13096
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company,, New York:, 1909.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing Very good+ in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board on top of embossed cover and spine with the recesses in black with the silhouette of a sailing ship. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. The book lacked a jacket until the third printing. 360 pages of text. A collection of 31 short stories. This copy is the unauthorized US printing of one of Kipling's earlier works. The first authorized US edition was was published by Doubleday Page & Company in 1909. (Richards; A227 & A232)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original pictorial cloth lettered in red. Pirated unauthorized edition. A very good copy, previous owners inscription to front free end paper, light rubbing to edges, touch of fraying to spine ends, some rubbing to rear cover. No dust jacket. (8802)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge and Company N.D., New York, 1909.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good book with square binding and cracked hinge in a dustjacket with edge chips, rubbing, and edgewear.
Seller: Bailey Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Unauthorized edition, first state (blue cloth with gold lettering) which preceded the trade first. A bit of shelf wear to bottom board edges, still a tight near fine copy with clean text. No dust jacket. A lovely copy.
Seller: Books Again, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel.. B. W. Dodge and Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: First unauthorized edition, second issue of Kipling's 1909 short story collection with red lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with the titles stamped in red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Published in this unauthorized, or pirated, edition months before the authorized edition was approved by Kipling and published, Abaft the Funnel includes such short stories as The Fallen Idol, The Shadow of His Hand, The Three Young Men, A Death in the Camp, and Chautauquaed.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. DODGE & COMPANY, NEW YORK, 1909.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: General wear and rubbed cover/dust jacket. Tight binding. Bookplate on front free endpage. No markings. Browned pages. Chipped, tears and creased on dust jacket. DATE PUBLISHED: 1909 EDITION: FIRST ED 360
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: True First Edition: predating the authorized edition by Doubleday, Page, and Company. 5 x 7.5in. viii. 360pp. Publisher's decorative cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows extremely light toning of the endpapers, a small spot of discoloration at the fore-edge, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows just a hint of shelf rubbing along the edges, spine ever so slightly darkened, else Fine/As New. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, NY, 1909.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hird issue with red lettering printed vs stamped (or gilt); in dust jacket--the only one of the three to be issued in one. Short stories and one poem.; dj w/lite wear only, in mylar; blue pictoral c w/red titles; 360 clean, unmarked pages w/hint of toning. Size: 8 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B.W. Dodge & Company,, 1909.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition, later issue binding. Some very mild wear to the extremities, else a nearly fine copy in blue cloth with nautical scene stamped in black; red-orange lettering to front cover and spine; no dust jacket. Pirated edition of this collection of Kipling tales--the authorized issue by Doubleday was offered at nineteen cents a copy in order to discourage sales of the pirate. Lettering is an orange-red in this later binding, the first issue lettering was gilt.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An unauthorized edition of Kipling's stories of the sea told by seamen. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and black witha square-rigger against sea and sky. A fine copy, with inscription ("Puzzle Prize - 1909) in ink to endpaper. Dust jacket, mylar-covered, shows three 3/4 inch chips, and wear to spine ends and corners. Otherwise fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge, New York, 1909.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American (pirated) edition, first issue with original blue cloth with seascape in black, gilt-stamped lettering. . Appearing two months before the authorized edition by Doubleday, Page and Company. Good only with hinges cracked, spine tail frayed, without dustwrapper as issued. A collection of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York:B. W. Dodge and Company, 1909.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:B. W. Dodge and Company. 1909. 1st pirated edition (with black seascape and title in gilt on front cover and spine strip), pre-dating the Doubleday edition by several months. Hardcover. Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn (with a small bubble to center of lower front board) and with wear to spine ends and along edges. The lower front edge-point is bumped with the first few pages having creased as well Internally clean, pages lightly age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth with seascape in black and orange lettering on front, second issue. Orange lettering on spine. Without dust-jacket. The wrapper wasn't introduced until the third issue. First American (pirated) edition. Appearing two months before the authorized edition by Doubleday, Page and Co. Top of spine chipped. Previous owner's bookplate present, and inscribed. 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft The Funnel. W. B. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 360 pages. Jacket extremities rubbed; light rubbing to board edges. Foxing to textblock edges and to endpapers; Christmas 1909 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is sound. Jacket will be housed in a removable archival sleeve.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, USA, 1909.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Unauthorised Edition. Hardback pictorial blue cloth boards with red lettering to front and spine (secondary binding). No dustjacket. 360pp. Not library copy, previous owners bookplate to ffep, tear to top edge of page 133. This is the true first edition, a pirate issue, published about two months before the authorised edition. (42/1)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. B. W. Dodge, New York, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, unauthorized. Third issue with red lettering printed vs stamped (or gilt); in dust jacket--the only one of the three to be issued in one. Short stories and one poem. Very good in good dust jacket with old tape repair to chips and tears on verso, one of which is visible at head of spine.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown else a fine copy. Livingston 328, "Pirated edition" preceding all others. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL .. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii 1-360, original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and black. First edition, second binding. "'Abaft the Funnel' was a title first used for a series of eight stories written by Kipling for the CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE which were first collected in TURN-OVERS, volumes V, VI, and VII. These were written during Kipling's journey in 1889 from India to England via Burma, China, Japan, and the United States . In 1909, B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, used the title for an unauthorized volume containing thirty stories, letters, and articles, and one poem, of which twenty-two of the stories and the poem has previously appeared in TURN-OVERS. In order to discourage the sale of the unauthorized edition, Kipling instructed Doubleday, Page & Company to issue a volume containing the same material and which was to retail at 19 cents . The first English printing was in volume XXX of the Sussex edition, 1938." - Stewart 324. Touch of rubbing to cloth along bottom edges, top edge of text block dusty, else a fine copy in near fine pictorial dust jacket (printed on tan paper stock) with light wear along top edges, two tiny closed tears at top edge of front panel, and shallow chip from head of spine panel. (#95221)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition/first Issue in Near Fine condition with lightly rubbed extremities. Binding in deep blue, vertical rib cloth with gold stamped author, title, and publisher as required. Without dust-jacket as issued. The wrapper wasn't introduced until the third issue. Richards 227, Livingston 328, Stewart 324; Abaft the Funnel is a collection of short stories and one poem published in 1909. The short stories contained within Abaft the Funnel were culled from the pages of the Civil and Military Gazette, the Pioneer and Pioneer Mail, the Weeks News, and the C&MG; 8vo; [iv], v-viii, 360 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel.. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of of Kiplingâs 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Published in this unauthorized, or pirated, edition months before the authorized edition was approved by Kipling and published, Abaft the Funnel includes such short stories as The Fallen Idol, The Shadow of His Hand, The Three Young Men, A Death in the Camp, and Chautauquaed.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge and Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Abaft the Funnel by Rudyard Kipling. First American edition in Blue cloth, with red lettering. Second issue thus. . Publisher: B.W. Dodge and Company, New York, 1909. Binding is in fine condition. Bookplates on the pastedown and ffep. Contents clean. 360 pages, no ads. This is the pirated edition that was printed prior to the first trade edition. Scarce. Protected by Mylar. Livingston 328. Inventory #13-094. Price: $125. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Abaft the Funnel.. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 360 pp. 8vo, original pictorial blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition, pirated; second state of the binding. Stewart 324. Near fine (slightly shlef-slanted) in a very nearly fine jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. B. W. Dodge & Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 360pp. Second issue, bound in a blue pictorial cloth depicting a ship on the high sea; red lettering spine and front cover. A clean bright copy in very good dust jacket with repair to rear panel along bottom edge duplicating the jacket design.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. , 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: KIPLING, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909. First (American) unauthorized edition. viii,360 pp. Octavo. In a striking publisher's binding of dark blue cloth decorated on the spine and upper board with a wraparound seascape design, showing a ship upon the sea below layers of clouds, with the title and author's name in bright gilt. This is a near-fine copy, being clean and crisp overall, but skewed at spine, and with a touch of shelfwear to cloth. This is a pirated edition containing thirty stories, letters, and articles, and one poem, of which twenty-two of the stories and the poem had previously appeared in Turn-overs. The individual pieces were written during Kipling's journey in 1889 from India to England and were first printed in periodicals (The Civil & Military Gazette, The Week's News, and The Pioneer) between 1888-90. To combat the sale of this unauthorized edition, Kipling instructed Doubleday, Page & Co. to issue a volume containing the same material at a reduced price. (Stewart 324, Livingston 328).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Abaft the Funnel. NY: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition; in pictorial blue cloth with red printed titling. 360 pp. This pirated edition by Dodge predates the authorized Doubleday edition by two months. Dodge published only one edition, but with three binding variants. The third issue was the first to include a dustjacket, although Richards believes. A fine copy except for prior owner's inked signature on fep. In VG d/w. Collects many pieces that were originally printed in the Civil and Military Gazette and Turnovers. [Martindell 112; Livingston 328, Richards A227]
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American (pirated) edition, third issue with blue cloth printed with seascape in black, and printed red lettering. A trifle rubbed at the extremities, still near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Scarce. A collection of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unauthorized edition; precedes the first edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with horizontal designs printed the spine and cover, with spine and cover lettered in orange, silhouette of sailing ship on the cover.Minor wear at extremities, otherwise fine. 360 pages.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge, New York, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American (pirated) edition, first issue with original blue cloth with seascape in black, gilt-stamped lettering. . Appearing two months before the authorized edition by Doubleday, Page and Company. Very good with light wear to the spine ends, small newspaper clipping laid on rear pastedown (pertaining to Rudyard Kipling), without dustwrapper as issued. Scarce. A collection of short stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Though a pirated one, it does precede the authorized Doubleday, Page and Co. edition by a few months. First issue in gilt-lettered blue cloth boards with ship at sea illustration stamped In black. Spine a little shaken otherwise near fine. Issued without a dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: [Short stories] FIRST US UNAUTHORISED EDITION. Octavo (30 x 13cm), pp.viii; 360. Pictorial blue cloth binding lettered in red (the secondary binding). Contents clean, edges a little soiled, label neatly removed from pastedown, cloth with light edge wear, lower corner bumped. A very good copy. This is the true first of this title, a pirate issue, published about two months before the authorised edition. Stewart [324].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Dodge, New York, 1909.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, blue cloth stamped in black & gilt. N.Y.: B.W. Dodge, 1909. First Edition. Fine. First (unauthorised) edition, appearing two months before the Doubleday Page edition. No dust jacket, as issued.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Abaft the Funnel.. New York, B.W. Dodge & Company, 1909., 1909.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition (unauthorized). 8vo. 360 pages. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Stewart 324. Livingston 328.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
KIPLING Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. , 1909.
Price: US$186.74 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original blue pictorial cloth, first issue binding lettered in gilt. New York, B.W. Dodge & Company. One of the piratical American productions that justifiably angered Kipling so much, this was an anthology of stories from the Indian publication Turnovers. A depressingly common book normally, this copy is distinguished by its extraordinarily fine condition, and is fine, bright and unworn.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the funnel. B.W. Dodge & Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First American unauthorized edition, 8vo, viii & 360pp.; minor rubbing to extremities, binding slightly cocked, else near fine in orig. blue cloth, front cover stamped in black, first issue, later binding with lettering in red. Livingston, 328.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard.. Abaft the Funnel.. B.W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Correct (unauthorized) First, Fine in variant dark blue cloth binding stamped in orange with black horizontal lines and ship motif. Lacking the dustwrapper. 360pp. Q15095
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Doubleday, Page and Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Authorized Edition, First Edition. Rare collection of Kipling stories to be found in original printed and illustrated dustjacket. The collection was first published by B. W. Dodge and Co. earlier in the same year, a volume that turns up more often than this present edition. Near Fine in dustjacket with inch sized chip at top spine end and at lower rear panel, small chips at top rear panel, modest soiling.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. B. W. Dodge & Co., New York, 1909.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Livingston 328. Pirated Edition, preceding the first edition of this collection of stories. This is one of the last copies to be bound with the front cover lettered in red rather than gold. Hinge cracked at the rear but very tight; covers bright and fresh. The dustwrapper is complete with only minor chipping at the spine tips and corners. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Abaft the Funnel.. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909, 1909.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue with gilt lettering, an unauthorized piracy by Dodge and Company reprinting Kipling's contributions from various Indian newspapers. The first issue can be distinguished by the gold lettering on the spine and front cover; in response to the piracy, Kipling instructed his regular American publisher, Doubleday, to produce a rival publication to undercut the piracy. To compete with the new authorized version, Dodge & Company bound remaining sheets of the book in a binding using a cheaper red lettering, rather than gilt. Richards notes that the publisher apparently retained many unsold copies, for the number of surviving fine dust jackets implies that a cache of copies was issued many decades later. Richards A227; Stewart 324. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy, in near-fine jacket with only very light shelfwear.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B.W. Dodge, New York, 1909.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (20cm). Pictorial deep blue textured cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher (see title page) and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue, with gilt stamping to cloth (later issues stamped in red). A fine, bright copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly worn, a trifle darkened on spine, Very Good.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. B. W. Dodge & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Unauthorized Edition. viii, 360 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In Dust Jacket. Stewart 324 Original blue cloth with seascape in black, lettering in orange (2nd variant of binding), fine copy, in original tan dust jacket, also showing some minor staining to back panel. In half red morocco slipcase
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. Abaft The Tunnel.. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1909.
Price: US$673.18 + shipping
Description: First (Authorized) edition. 8vo., orig. grey cloth dec. in black and cream, viii, 323pp. Bookplate, otherwise a fine copy. Stewart 325. (WITH): Abaft the Funnel. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909. First edition, precedes authorized edition. 8vo., blue cloth dec. in black and gilt, viii, 360pp. Faint rubbing to spine, but still an about fine copy. Stewart 324. Two volumes together in a custom cloth slipcase with navy morocco double mock-spine, gilt lettering, raised bands.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel.. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First authorized edition of Kiplingâs 1909 short story collection with the author's note noting Dodge's previously unauthorized edition "issued without my knowledge or sanction". Octavo, original publisher's decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition with the scarce publisher's wrap around band present. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. First published in an unauthorized edition by B. W. Dodge and Co. months before this authorized edition was approved by Kipling, Abaft the Funnel includes such short stories as The Fallen Idol, The Shadow of His Hand, The Three Young Men, A Death in the Camp, and Chautauquaed.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel.. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First authorized edition of Kiplingâs 1909 short story collection with the author's note noting Dodge's previously unauthorized edition "issued without my knowledge or sanction". Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. First published in an unauthorized edition by B. W. Dodge and Co. months before this authorized edition was approved by Kipling, Abaft the Funnel includes such short stories as The Fallen Idol, The Shadow of His Hand, The Three Young Men, A Death in the Camp, and Chautauquaed.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.