ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909. 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).
Price: $100.00
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