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Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Doubleday Page, 1909.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Some staining and wear to the illustrated covers and spine; the pages are yellowed; a cigarette smell inside but a solid reading copy of an old book. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 183754.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. Doubleday Page & Company, New York, N.Y., 1909.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth binding with golld color print on front cover and spine. Impressed Viking ship design with blackon front cover and spine.Wear at spine ends. Tinted headedge. Foredge and bottom are rough-cut and have tanning, Small split in rear endpaper. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf and bookplate on front paste-down, Sound and otherwise unmarked. 323 pages. Not marked as such, but one of a Kipling serie this publisher did.
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. Abaft The Funnel. Doubleday, Page and Company : New York, 1909., 1909.
Price: US$12.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1909. 323 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Purple cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel (Authorized Edition). Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
Price: US$16.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No jacket. Board corners bumped, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. viii, 323 pp. The measure of a man's popularity is not always --or indeed seldom-- the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years, there is always a suspicion that his venture is purely a commercial one, without literary justification. Fortunately these thirty-one stories of Mr. Kipling's form their own best excuse for this, their first appearance together in book form. Not merely because in them may be traced the origin of that style and subject matter that later made their author famous; but because the stories are in themselves worth while --worth writing, and worth reading.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Doubleday Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing; 1909 date on title page and copyright page, no additional printing noted, in original grey cloth with elephant in scene above, white lettering. Lightly used, almost no signs of wear to cloth, but spine is sunned and discolored and most of the white lettering is lost. Endpapers clean and bright, hinges tight, no names or marks. With the publisher's printed summary of the history of the book, 52 lines on glossy 10 1/4" x 3 7/8" paper, which refrains from mentioning the Dodge piracy and provides more information about the stories themselves.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Doubleday, Page and Company : New York, 1909., 1909.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, 8vo, viii,323pp, page edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth pictorial, corners slightly bumped, spine rubbed and dull, Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft The Funnel. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., NEW YORK, 1909.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: good cover and spine. faded lettering to spine. rubbing to edges of cover and spine. very clean endpapers. pages are very clean. black illustration to title page DATE PUBLISHED: 1909 EDITION: 323
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First American Authorized Edition. Octavo. Original green clothover boards with black ink decorations and gilt lettering at front cover and spine, gilt top edge. very good, spine ends bumped with top heavily bumped, spine darkened, corners bumped, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. NY: Doubleday, Page, 1909.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: lst authorized edition (after unauthorized edition published by Dodge & Co.). Light gray pictorial stamped cloth with white lettering. Very good condition. Spine is slightly faded; soil mark on front board; light overall soil to boards; some light spotting on lower text block edge. Lacks a dust jacket.
Seller: Shirley K. Mapes, Books, Omaha, NE, 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.
Rudyard Kipling. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$48.88 + shipping
Description: Fair in wrappers. Spine sunned, flaking, and chipped. Scuffing to front and rear panels. Front panel's partially leather detached from cardboard. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, Rudyard.. ABAFT THE FUNNEL.. Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York,, 1909.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.s. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 323. Original publishers illustrated green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Bookplate of Hugh (Vercingetorix) Brogan (1936 Ð 2019) British historian and biographer, showing nude youth holding a book. He was Professor of History at University of Essex and wrote biographies of Arthur Ransome and De Tocqueville. Authorized edition. Very slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine. Excellent condition.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
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.. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1909.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 323 pp. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth in dust jacket. Preceded by an unauthorized Dodge edition in the same year (1909). Lacking the front free endpaper (which was neatly excised). The cloth is bright and unworn, with just the slightest of use at the extremities of the spine; in a lightly chipped and dust-soiled jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kipling, Rudyard. Abaft the Funnel. Doubleday, Page & Co. - New York, 1909.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First authorized American Ediiton, with note from Kipling about the version published by Dodge that was not authorized. Dark green cloth boards with beautiful stamped viking long ship on front and very bright stamped gilt titling on front and spine. Stamped rulings on border of front. Only interior marking is former owners book plate.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, 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 .. 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.
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.
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.
Kipling, Rudyard.. Abaft the Funnel.. NY. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1909., 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Authorized Edition. VG- in grey cloth with dulled and flecked white lettering; bright landscape scene stamped at top half of front boards. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
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. 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 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.