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Abaft the Funnel
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909. First Edition. 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)
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB31533
- Title
- Abaft the Funnel
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. W. Dodge & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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