Abaft the Funnel
by Kipling, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1909. First American Ediiton, First Printing . Grey Cloth. Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket. Plates. First printing; 1909 date on title page and copyright page, no additional printing noted, in original grey cloth with elephant in scene above, white lettering. Lightly used, almost no signs of wear to cloth, but spine is sunned and discolored and most of the white lettering is lost. Endpapers clean and bright, hinges tight, no names or marks. With the publisher's printed summary of the history of the book, 52 lines on glossy 10 1/4" x 3 7/8" paper, which refrains from mentioning the Dodge piracy and provides more information about the stories themselves.
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- Bookseller
- Arroyo Seco Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025772
- Title
- Abaft the Funnel
- Author
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Illustrator
- Plates
- Format/Binding
- Grey Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Book
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Ediiton, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature: Nineteenth Century; Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century;
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About the Seller
Arroyo Seco Books
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About Arroyo Seco Books
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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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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