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Abaft the Funnel
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- Seller
-
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Again, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1488
- Title
- Abaft the Funnel
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B.W. Dodge & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Books Again, Inc.
All purchases can be returned within 10 days with prior notification. Buyer pays for return shipping costs unless we have made a mistake with the order.
About the Seller
Books Again, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Atlanta, Georgia
About Books Again, Inc.
We are an open book store with 30,000, mostly hardcover books in stock. Our hours are 10-6 EST and we are located in downtown Decatur, Georgia which is 6 miles east of Atlanta.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
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