Kipling rudyard

1909 · 95221 — 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 B. W. Dodge & Company unknown books