Abaft the Funnel

New York: B.W. Dodge, 1909.

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. First American (pirated) edition, first issue with original blue cloth with seascape in black, gilt-stamped lettering. . Appearing two months before the authorized edition by Doubleday, Page and Company. Very good with light wear to the spine ends, small newspaper clipping laid on rear pastedown (pertaining to Rudyard Kipling), without dustwrapper as issued. Scarce. A collection of short stories.

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Item #292190 Abaft the Funnel. Rudyard KIPLING.

Rudyard Kipling
birth name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
born: 12/30/1865
died: 1/18/1936
nationality: Great Britain

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Biography

English novelist, short-story writer, and poet chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and Burma, and his excellent tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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