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Abaft the Funnel.

KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936).

New York, NY: B.W. Dodge and Company, 1909. [Short stories] FIRST US UNAUTHORISED EDITION. Octavo (30 x 13cm), pp.viii; 360. Pictorial blue cloth binding lettered in red (the secondary binding). Contents clean, edges a little soiled, label neatly removed from pastedown, cloth with light edge wear, lower corner bumped. A very good copy. This is the true first of this title, a pirate issue, published about two months before the authorised edition. Item #55217

Stewart [324].

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