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19098984New York: B.W. Dodge & Co 1909. First American unauthorized edition 8vo viii & 360pp.; minor rubbing to extremities binding slightly cocked else near fine in orig. blue cloth front cover stamped in black first issue later binding with lettering in red. Livingston 328. <br/><br/> B.W. Dodge & Co hardcover books
1909220923New York B.W. Dodge & Company 1909. 1909. First American edition unauthorized. 8vo. 360 pages. Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Stewart 324. Livingston 328. F. Hardcover. New York, B.W. Dodge & Company, 1909. hardcover books
1909WRCLIT41549New York: Dodge 1909. Pictorial cloth printed in black and red. First edition unauthorized second binding with lettering in red rather than gilt. A cheap edition under Doubleday's imprint was authorized by Kipling to under cut Dodge's collection. Bookplate cloth faded at edges as usual spine tips rubbed else good and sound. STEWART 324. RICHARDS A227. Dodge hardcover books
1909722871909. KIPLING Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First American unauthorized edition. viii360 pp. Octavo. In a striking publisher's binding of dark blue cloth decorated on the spine and upper board with a wraparound seascape design showing a ship upon the sea below layers of clouds with the title and author's name in bright gilt. This is a near-fine copy being clean and crisp overall but skewed at spine and with a touch of shelfwear to cloth. This is a pirated edition containing thirty stories letters and articles and one poem of which twenty-two of the stories and the poem had previously appeared in Turn-overs. The individual pieces were written during Kipling's journey in 1889 from India to England and were first printed in periodicals The Civil & Military Gazette The Week's News and The Pioneer between 1888-90. To combat the sale of this unauthorized edition Kipling instructed Doubleday Page & Co. to issue a volume containing the same material at a reduced price. Stewart 324 Livingston 328. unknown books
190946461909. FE. KIPLING Rudyard. ABAFT THE FUNNEL. New York: B.W. Dodge & Co. 1909. First edition pirated first issue binding. Among the earliest copies bound. Embossed and lettered in gold. The binding is textured to highlight the pictorial design. This copy has been over-opened between pages 8 and 9. There is some shelfwear at the heel crown and the outside corners. The gold lettering is bright though the black illustration has been rubbed in one spot. This is a very good copy. Livingston #328. unknown books
190962191New York: B. W. Dodge & Company 1909. First Unauthorized Edition. viii 360 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth with seascape in black lettering in orange 2nd variant of binding fine copy in original tan dust jacket also showing some minor staining to back panel. In half red morocco slipcase. First Unauthorized Edition. viii 360 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In Dust Jacket. Stewart 324 B. W. Dodge & Company unknown books
1937WRCLIT41665New Haven: Yale Library Associates 1937. Wrappers printed label. Facsimile. First edition. Unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector else about fine. STEWART 226. Yale Library Associates unknown books
1937WRCLIT41721New Haven: Yale Library Associates 1937. Wrappers printed label. Facsimile. First edition. Upper wrapper a bit tanned and lightly creased very good. STEWART 226. Yale Library Associates unknown books
1937WRCLIT41720New Haven: Yale Library Associates 1937. Wrappers printed label. Facsimile. First edition. Unfortunate adhesive booklabel of a noted Kipling collector wrappers a bit smudged paper label soiled just a good copy. STEWART 226. Yale Library Associates unknown books
1928220835New York Privately Printed 1928. 1928. First edition unauthorized. Thin 8vo. Title page illustration. Original blue/gray boards with printed paper label on spine uncut. Glassine dust jacket. Very good-fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. #84/93 numbered copies. Stewart 412. F. Hardcover. New York, Privately Printed, 1928. hardcover books
1909120821London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto original blue cloth gilt pictorial to the front panel gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition. "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
19091262601London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First Edition. 4to. unpaginated; VG; bound in white vellum with gilt lettering and gilt green and red vignettes on front board and spine; 30 tipped-in color plates in a green decorative border with printed tissue-guards including frontispiece; ties missing; top edge gilt others uncut; this edition is limited to five hundred copies signed by the artist and numbered of which this is number 45; foxing throughout does not impact color plates; bookplate belonging to Jacobi R. W. Robinson on inside front board; boards curving as is typical of vellum; DC consignment; shelved case 14. 1262601. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
19093767London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Large quarto 10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm. 64 leaves. Thirty color plates including frontispiece mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text half-page or smaller. Title printed in red and black. An excellent copy of the first trade edition.<br/><br/>"This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine May 1893 prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas 1896" Martindell. It is classic Kipling beautifully illustrated by Robinson.<br/><br/>Beare 61b. Lewis 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 giving the date of publication as 1913. Stewart 151. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
19091342356New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First American Edition. Hardcover. Quarto unpaginated; G; bound in publisher's red cloth gilt titling and decorations; some rubbing and shelfwear chipping to tail of spine; gutter showing at multiple signature breaks; with 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson; shelved case 14. 1342356. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
190930659New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1909. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Gilt green cloth. Spine a little faded else very good. Robinson W. Heath. First American Edition. 30 color plates by W. Heath Robinson. 1 vols. 4to. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
1911WRCLIT41747Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1911. Red cloth lettered and ruled in black. Maps and plates. First "school" edition ostensibly issued in the same month as the ordinary edition. Cloth a bit soiled and marked adhesive book label of a noted Kipling collector; a good sound copy. STEWART 358. At the Clarendon Press hardcover books
1926WRCLIT83687Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1926. Cream-yellow wrapper printed in green. Fine in somewhat rubbed half morocco slipcase. First edition published in order to protect US copyright. RICHARDS A361. LIVINGSTON 510. STEWART 667. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
1918WRCLIT21963Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1918. Printed wrappers. Fine in lightly rubbed half morocco slipcase. First edition in book form one of eighty copies printed to protect U.S. copyright. RICHARDS A309. STEWART 460. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown books
1918WRCLIT41424Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1918. Cream wrappers printed in green. Near fine in plain cloth folder labeled in manuscript. First edition in book form one of eighty copies printed to protect U.S. copyright. RICHARDS A309. STEWART 460. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
1918WRCLIT40085Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co. 1918. Cream wrappers printed in green. Near fine. First edition in book form one of eighty copies printed to protect U.S. copyright. RICHARDS A309. STEWART 460. Doubleday, Page & Co. unknown books
1909120708New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1909. Scarce separate edition of Kipling's song for the Boy Scouts. Octavo original wrappers. One of only 20 copies printed by Doubleday for copyright purposes. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Scarce. English journalist short-story writer poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling's major works include The Jungle Book 1894 Kim 1901 and many short stories and poems. Kipling was born in India which inspired much of his work and his innovative stories for children have become timeless classics. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
1917WRCLIT77661Garden City: Doubleday 1917. Cream wrappers printed in green bound up by the French Bindery in full forest green crushed morocco raised bands gilt and blind- ruled side panels gilt inner dentelles with title in gilt above an inset red morocco rose with blindstamped leaves and gilt edges within the upper panel. Internally fine but the morocco binding is spine faded and the upper joint is cracked toward the crown but sound. First edition in book form of this Christmas poem printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 84 copies. From the Nelson Doubleday collection with his bookplate on the front pastedown. RICHARDS A292. STEWART 454. Doubleday hardcover books
1917WRCLIT40099Garden City: Doubleday 1917. Cream wrappers printed in green. A near fine copy. First edition in book form of this poem printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 84 copies. RICHARDS A292. STEWART 454. Doubleday unknown books
1924WRCLIT83945Chicago: American Crossarm & Conduit Co. 1924. Small folded leaflet 17.5 x 11.5 cm with facsimile of the letter printed on top panel. Laid into oversize printed wrapper 23.5 x 15cm. Fine but without the original mailing envelope. First unauthorized printing one of 200 copies prepared for private distribution by the owner of the original letter William M. Carpenter. RICHARDS B/31. STEWART 738. American Crossarm & Conduit Co. unknown books
193529542Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1935. First Edition. 8vo pp. 936. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. VG. Doubleday, Doran unknown books