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Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City New York, 1915.

Price: US$7.49 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: The first American edition hardcover. Has some exterior damage: missing some of the spine cloth, and has a worn corner. Inside good. We ship fast. Size: Small

Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET. Doubleday, Page & Co.,, Garden City, 1915.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. hardcover. Good. 16 mo, 122 pages. Former owner name on front free endpaper, light wear. 092108D

Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$10.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tan paper-covered boards with paper label title on spine, and large paste-on title label on front board with British naval flag. Moderate wear to head and base of spine and lower corner.

Seller: William Davis & Son, Booksellers, Oreland, PA, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1915.

Price: US$11.00 + shipping

Description: Brown paper over boards, full cover paste-on title, split and chipped along spine, owner's name on cover page. Classic; 7613.

Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.

RUDYARD KIPLING. THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET. DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY, New York, 1915.

Price: US$11.88 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Brown boards/paper covers with title, flag and author on front cover paste-down, paper label to spine with some chipping/top right corner of spine missing small piece. Internally CLEAN, COMPLETE, and TIGHT.

Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday Page & Co., New York, 1915.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing. A collection of essays and poems on Royal Navy operations during World War I. A companion to "France at War." Includes the first appearances of six new poems. [from publisher] Paper labels on spine and front cover with a flag image in color. Also includes publisher ads for Kipling's books on interior dustjacket folds. Dustjacket is only fair with loss along top edge, former owner's name on front free endpaper, else a clean unmarked copy.

Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

KIPLING, RUDYARD:. The Fringes of the Fleet.. 1st US edit., Doubleday, Page and Co, 1915. Clean copy., 1915.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: vi+122pp. orig. boards, paper labels, some wear on extremities,

Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes Of The Fleet I The Auxiliary Fleet [ This Part Only]. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1915.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Library ink stamp on the inside of the front cover. Covers have a long streak to the front and are lightly smudged. ; Approx. 5 1/4" wide by 8". Part One only. ; 7 pages

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes Of The Fleet; A Companion Volume To "France At War". Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1915.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 16mo; pp; (vi), 122; brown mottled paper covered boards, upper board with a large paste on label printed in black and decorated with a British Admiralty flag in black, red and blue, spine with paper label, black lettering; jacket with chiips at edges and lightly soiled, the book, bright and clean; Bibliographies; Richards A284; Livingston 401; Stewart 396. This covers "Auxilleries, Submarines & Patrol Boats". WWI naval subjects.

Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1915.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Brown boards with slight bumping at base of spine. Mylar cover, no dust jacket as issued. Tight binding. Text block clean except for former owners pencilled signature on front endpaper. Text block corners and edges sharp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122 pages

Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1915.

Price: US$26.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Paper-covered boards, color pastedown, paper spine label. 122 pp. Contains The Auxiliaries, Submarines, Patrols. Antique ex-library, withdrawal stamp, a bit of wear at spine. Solid copy in good condition.

Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes Of The Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1915.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: DJ has light edge wear and a tear on the back, and is in a mylar protector. The endpapers are discolored from having the DJ present. ; In incomplete clear plastic cover.

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard.. The Fringes of The Fleet.. N.Y:Doubleday Page. 1915. Hardcover., 1915.

Price: US$38.50 + shipping

Description: 1st. ed. fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. MacMillan and Co., Inc., London, 1915.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Paper wrappers, the front cover lettered in red, advertisement on rear cover [19 lines]. Originally issed as six separate pamplets by Doubleday, Page. No name, no book-plate, etc. Some toning to wrappers and light wear to paper backstrip, but overall a superior copy of this fragile publication. A very good copy. Livingston 400 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page and Co, New York, 1915.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American edition. 122pp. Tan paper boards with mounted paper labels. Very good with pictures and newspaper articles pasted onto the endpapers about the author and the war, rubbing, foxing on the foredge, and bumped spine ends. Stories and poetry written about the soldiers and battles of the war.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. The Fringes of The Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1915.

Price: US$48.08 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A smart copy of this collection of essays and poems with nautical themes surrounding the subject of war. First US trade edition in this format, originally published as a series of pamphlets. A collection of essays and poems with nautical themes surrounding the subject of war, including: The Auxiliaries, Submarines, and Patrols. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the original paper covered binding. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Sunning to the spine with minor loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Co, Garden City, NY, 1915.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: 18mo. 122 pp. Mottled boards, label spine, pictorial label front, very good. (18198). Livingston #401.

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard. France at War and The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City and New York, 1915.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition, two volumes, Duodecimo, Brown paper over boards, with pastedown cover, and paper spine labels, parts of dust jacket laid in. Two related titles from Kipling on WWI. In France at War, Kipling describes his travels through France during the War, and in The Fringes of the Fleet, Kipling details the lesser known parts of the Royal Navy. Very good, light foxing, and The Fringes of the Fleet is slightly torn on front cover along spine.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

Rudyard Kipling. The Fringes of the Fleet: The Auxiliary Fleet I-II, Submarines III-IV, Patrols V-VI [six volumes]. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Description: Six pamphlet volumes in wraps. First edition thus. Each one of 50 copies. Good only, with rubbing and soiling to covers.

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard.. The Fringes of the Fleet.. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915., 1915.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American edition. 12mo. Dust jacket (unclipped; few small chips). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. "Includes 6 new poems.especially written for this book." Livingston 401.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, NY, 1915.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: First American trade edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Stewart 396 Brown boards. Fine in chipped dust jacket

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet: Six pamphlets, American copyright issues: The Auxiliary Fleet, I and II, Submarines, III and IV, Patrols, V and VI. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, NY, 1915.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Description: Each one of 50 copies. 6 vols. 8vo. Stewart 394 Original printed wrappers, FINE COPIES, in blue morocco-backed slipcase. Bookplate of famous collector John A. Spoor in each pamphlet

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Kipling, R.. The Fringes of the Fleet. [ 6 vols, complete set ].. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, first editions, 1915, 1915.

Price: US$552.31 + shipping

Description: Editions of 75 copies only. A complete set of the true first editions of these six articles, these American copyright issues preceding the first newspaper publication in The Daily Telegraph and in various American and European newspapers. The articles were written at the instance of the British Ministry of Information to describe the activities of smaller units of the Navy employed at its 'fringes' - submarines, destroyers, and various auxiliary vessels. In addition to the title-article, each pamphlet includes one of Kipling's poems. The set comprises : I and II: The Auxiliary Fleet; III and IV: Submarines; Vand VI: Patrols. The accompanying poems appear here without titles, but were later collected with the following titles: The Lowestoft Boat; Minesweepers; Harwich Ladies; Tin Fish; A Song in Storm; and North Sea Patrol. A Near Fine set preserved in a chemise and leather-backed slipcase. Bookplates of Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks on front inside board of chemise,

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom

Kipling, Rudyard. THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET [complete in six volumes]. , 1915.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Description: I & II. The Auxiliary Fleet. / III & IV. Submarines. / V & VI. Patrols. [Together, six volumes.] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original light yellow wrappers lettered in green. First Editions, being the American copyright issues, limited (according to DP&Co's annotated copy) to 75 copies each. These six articles, written at the instance of the Ministry of Information, were issued separately from November 19th through December 1st, 1915. The English and American book editions were then published sometime in December; a year later, they were collected in Kipling's book SEA WARFARE (December 1916). Each of the six volumes leads off with an original poem written by Kipling for the occasion. The Vol VI poem reads "(Twelve verses omitted.)" between the third verse and the last verse: this "was only a little joke of Kipling's to indicate that it would, of course, take a very lengthy poem to give any idea of the dangers and tribulations incurred by the [North Sea] patrol" [Richards]. The first volume has just a hint of cover soil, but otherwise all six are fine and un-worn, other than the usual minor rusting of the staples. Richards A282; Stewart 394.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.

Kipling, Rudyard. The Fringes of the Fleet (pamphlets). Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1915.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo (20 x 14 cm). 1/75. Light yellow wraps with light green titles to uppers. Each pamphlet includes a new poem by Kipling and a description of the smaller units of The Royal Navy. In red leather and cloth slipcase with wear to edges.

Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.

KIPLING, Rudyard.. The Fringes of the Fleet.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915, 1915.

Price: US$877.19 + shipping

Description: First US copyright edition of Kipling's articles describing the activities of smaller units of the Navy employed at its "fringes", comprising submarines, destroyers, and other auxiliary vessels. The text of each pamphlet commences with a poem. The publisher's archives note that 75 copies of each pamphlet were printed. Complete sets in this condition are rare. In his after-dinner speech at the Kipling Society annual lunch in May 1999, David Alan Richards noted that Kipling's "London literary agent A. P. Watt and his New York publisher Frank N. Doubleday made extensive use of limited printings. to establish copyright in each country". The present pamphlets represent the true first editions and pre-date the first UK edition and US trade editions. The articles were later published within The Daily Telegraph in the UK, and the Hearst newspapers in the US on 20, 23, 25, 27, 30 November, and 2 December 1915. The sub-titles of the pamphlets comprise: "The Auxiliary Fleet", "Submarines", and "Patrols" (two volumes each). Martindell 142; Livingston 399 and Supp. p. 164; Stewart 394; Grolier 458; Ballard CLXII; Richards A282. 6 volumes, octavo. Original pale yellow wrappers, lettered on front covers in light green. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase. Occasional light dust-soiling to wrappers, minor tear to front cover of volume 6, else near-fine and crisp copies.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom