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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [3-4] [i-iii] iv-v [vi-vii] viii [1] 2-232 [233-242: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, 48 illustrations by J. Ferat, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First authorized U.S. edition, later printing. This Scribner, Armstrong edition (a later printing advertising three titles including MERIDIANA; the first printing advertises only two titles, A JOURNEY TO THE MOON and A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH) was issued the same day the unauthorized edition of MERIDIANA was published in Boston by Henry L. Shepard & Co. as ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF THE BEHEMOTH. Prior to publishing this edition, Scribner, Welford, & Armstrong imported sheets of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition [title page dated 1873] printed by Gilbert and Rivington and bound in England by Burn & Co. with a cancel title leaf mounted on a stub (this issue was perhaps prepared quickly to precede or compete with the Shepard's unauthorized edition). Myers 39. Taves and Michaluk V009. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corners and some rubbing along bottom and fore edges, a good copy with bright stamping and tight, clean interior. (#173593)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Stories of Adventure. Scribners, 1874.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With 68 Full-Page Illustrations. I. MERIDIANA. II. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. 8 pp undated ads + 2 single page ads after the title page of each novel. 3 identical ad catalog pages ( "Caution" against buying these titles by any other publisher (which "are PIRATED, and cannot fail to be inferior in every particular"). 2nd issue with spine imprint of Scribners on the foot. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. First Combined Edition. 48 MERIDIANA illustrations with just 20 of them from the other title. A good reading example of this scarce 1st edition with assorted areas of wear. Not in collectable condition example but a good place-filler, in need of restoration, till you can find one of reasonable cost.
Seller: White Mountains, Rare Books and Maps, Lincoln, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1st edition thus. "68 full-page illustrations". Meridiana 231 page; Journey 305 page; plus 8 pages ads. Brown cloth, decorated with black & gilt. Poor condition only. White spotting to front board, with moderate soiling to rear boards. Board corners worn. Wear 1/4" loss to tail of spine. Spine head torn, with 1" loss. Hinges cracked. Scribbling on endpapers. All pages present, but one signature coming loose, and one page containing list of illustrations coming detached (and with edgewear to this page). All illustrations present. ; B&W Illustrations; SFH9C; 7/1/2 X 5; 305 pages
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Stories of Adventure. Scribner Armstrong and Company, 1874.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Just a good only copy with a great deal od=f wear. Contains Meridiana or The Adventures of Three and Three Russians and A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. With numerous illustrations. Several very significant stains in the book and the binding is worn. Owners penciled name and date 1874 on the front page. A fairly uncommon book, but in rough condition.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rare original antique Victorian Copy of Jules Verne's "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth." The book is overall in good condition with some signs of wear and age. It is undated but circa 1874; there is an ad at the rear of the book for publications from the year 1873. The covers have some mild wear. The front fep is no longer present and there is some cracking to the front interior hinge; however, the binding is still good and sound. The interior is lightly toned from age with just the occasional light bit of foxing, soiling, or grubbiness. Along with that there may be the very occasional page with some kind of other minor imperfection such as a tiny chip or tear, minor interior crack, creased page corner, etc. Generally though, it's a good copy. The book measures approximately 7 3/4 inches by 5 1/2 inches and is 305 pages long with some additional pages of ads at the rear.
Seller: Nevermore Bookstore, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1874. Very Good condition but missing front free endpaper. Top of spine frayed. Bottom of spine slightly rubbed. Previous owner's small ink stamps and signature. Light endpaper foxing. No foxing on most text pages, although there are scattered spots on a few pages. With 48 illustrations. Blind-stamped decorations on spine, as well as front and back covers. The spine and front cover are also gilt-stamped. Gilt on front cover is still bright and shiny. Gilt on spine less bright, but still distinct. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. A tight, square copy, that presents better than this detailed description makes it sound. Myers' "probable" first issue, printing A (with 1874 on the title page and only two books listed on verso: JOURNEY TO THE MOON and JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH). This copy appears to be a variant of Myers 39 in two respects. 1) The word "or" does not appear after "Meridiana" on the title page, although "or" does appear in the spine title. 2) It is bound in the publisher's terra-cotta cloth, rather than green. Myers 39. Taves / Michaluk V009. . First American Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Original terra-cotta cloth/No dust jacket. 8vo. viii, 232pp. + 2 pages of ads.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. First American Edition published by Scribner, Armstrong in 1874. First State. With numerous and wonderful full-page plates of African animals and adventures. First State with only two titles ("Journey to the Moon" and "Journey to the Centre of the Earth") listed on the title page under "New Books By Jules Verne." VG- in decorated terracotta cloth stamped brightly in gilt. With bright gilt lettering and design (rising sun) on the front panel. Spine gilt is dulled. With fraying to the top and bottom of the spine ends which have been strengthened with book glue. Corners also rubbed and frayed. Light staining to the rear panel. Presentation inscription in pencil on the front paste-down. First Edition. First American Edition published by Scribner, Armstrong in 1874. First State.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-iii] iv-v [vi-vii] viii [1] 2-232 [233-234: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], fly leaves at front and rear, 48 illustrations by J. Ferat, publisher's pictorial terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First authorized U.S. edition, first printing. This Scribner, Armstrong edition (the first printing, which advertises only two titles, A JOURNEY TO THE MOON and A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, on the verso of the title leaf and on the recto and verso of the leaf of ads at rear) was issued the same day the unauthorized edition of MERIDIANA was published in Boston by Henry L. Shepard & Co. as ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF THE BEHEMOTH. Prior to publishing this edition, Scribner, Welford, & Armstrong imported sheets of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition [title page dated 1873] printed by Gilbert and Rivington and bound in England by Burn & Co. with a cancel title leaf mounted on a stub (this issue was perhaps prepared quickly to precede or compete with the Shepard's unauthorized edition). Myers 39. Taves and Michaluk V009. Cloth lightly worn and frayed at spine ends, some rubbing to cloth along bottom edges, top edge of text block a bit dusty, a very good copy with bright stamping and tight, clean interior. (#135557)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH .. Scribner, New York, 1874.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. [1-6] 1-305 [306: blank] [307-316: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, 20 illustrations by Riou, publisher's decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First printing of Scribner, Armstrong's "popular" edition. This undated 305-page edition with 20 full-page illustrations was preceded by a 384-page Scribner, Armstrong edition with 52 full-page illustrations, printed from the plates of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition. Although its title page is dated 1874, the Scribner, Armstrong edition was published 8 November 1873 at $2.00 per copy. Scribner, Armstrong's "popular" edition was published in June 1874 at 75¢ to undermine sales of the unauthorized edition published in Boston in 1874 by the Henry L. Shepard & Co. The "popular" edition may have been published simultaneously with Scribner, Armstrong's more lavish 413-page "complete" edition, which sold for $3.00. The "popular" edition advertises three Verne books published by Scribner, Armstrong, MERIDIANA, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, and A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (offered here in both "popular" and "complete" editions). Verne's second novel, a translation of VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE (1864). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-94 and (2004) II-1182. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2228. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 766. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1102-05. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 16. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14630. Myers 35. Taves and Michaluk V002. Cloth worn with shallow loss at corner tips and spine ends, else a clean, tight, good or better copy. (#173532)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1874 JULES VERNE 1st US ed Meridiana Adventures Voyages Exploration Scribner Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa is a 19th century adventure novel written by iconic author, Jules Verne. This 1874 first American edition features 48 steel-engraved plates, adding a layer of visual detail to Vernes already vivid and exciting prose. The story follows the thrilling adventures of a group of explorers as they journey through the vast and uncharted wilderness of South Africa, encountering a range of challenges and obstacles along the way. As described by Myers, the book is: a hunting story, which aroused many a youthful sportsmans throbbing eagerness for the chase and gave him this first knowledge and earliest enthusiasm for that heart-stirring excitement. This 1874 first American popular edition with its steel-engraved plates is a valuable collectors item for fans of Jules Verne and classic adventure literature. Item number: #30797 Price: $499 VERNE, Jules Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1874. First US Popular edition. Details: Collation: Complete o viii, 232, [10] o 48 steel-engraved plates Edition Note: o First edition: Printing B (Not in the red cloth called for by Myers) References: Bleiler, pg. 199; Myers 39; Reginald 14630; Taves/Michaluk V-009 Provenance: Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Green cloth Size: ~7.75in X 5.5in (19.5cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 30797 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Scribner, Armstrong & Co, New York, 1874.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Measures 5" x 7.75", 305 pages, with 20 engraved illustrations not included in the pagination. In its original Victorian binding. Embossed decorative border on the boards and spine, with gold titling and decoration on the spine. The book is in good condition. Minor wear to the boards and spine with gently bumped corners. Foxing to the endsheets. Light scattered soiling throughout. The binding is cracked at page 77 with two small tears. Page 13 has been reattached and has a small one inch tear at the edge. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (I12-7).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. [1-4] [i-ii] iii-vi [vii] viii 1-413 [414: blank] [415-420: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, 55 full-page illustrations and title page vignette by Riou, original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First printing of Scribner, Armstrong's "complete" edition, published at $3.00 and released in late 1874 or early 1875. This undated 413-page edition with 55 full-page illustrations was preceded by a Scribner, Armstrong edition with title page dated 1874 with 384 pages and 52 full-page illustrations (a copy of this 1874 edition has been noted signed and dated 4 November 1873 by an early owner). This earlier version was offset from the plates of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition and was offered for sale at $2.00. It is probable that Scribner, Armstrong rushed out this early version to compete with the unauthorized edition published in Boston by the Henry L. Shepard & Co. in 1874. Scribner, Armstrong's "complete" edition has reset text with printer's imprints on title leaf verso reading "Jas. B. Rogers Co. / Printers and Stereotypers, / Philadelphia" and "John F. Trow & Sons, / Printers and Bookbinders, / 205-213 East 12th St., / New York." Pages [415-420] are publishers' advertisements with a single Verne title, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON DIRECT IN 97 HOURS, 20 MINUTES, listed on page [420]. The title page calls for 52 illustrations by Riou, the spine panel for 53, but there are actually a total of 55 full page illustrations in the text as per the "list of illustrations." This "complete" issue, published at $3.00, was probably released simultaneously with the "popular" issue, 305 pages with 20 illustrations, published at 75¢. In any event, both editions were available by or before Scribner, Armstrong issued the first part of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in 1875 as both are advertised on the title leaf verso along with A FLOATING CITY and THE BLOCKADE-RUNNERS, the latter noted as "just issued." Regardless of the matter of priority of these Scribner, Armstrong editions, this "complete" issue is quite scarce and it is a very desirable edition of A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. Translation of VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE (1864). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-94 and (2004) II-1182. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2228. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 766. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1102-05. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 16. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14630. Myers 35. Taves and Michaluk V002. This copy has smoke and water damage from a fire, but is a tight, presentable copy overall. A decent copy of a rare and desirable edition of this book. (#165801)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original decorated brown cloth. Complete with 68 illustrations. "On July 7, 1874 Scribner, Armstrong copyrighted Stories of Adventure, two volumes in one, which contains Meridiana and A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. This book was published by July 4, 1874, and is bound in pictorial cloth with the front cover design borrowed from the earlier Scribner, Welford, Armstrong edition of Meridiana." Taves, Michaluk, V009, p. 132. Of the 68 illustrations, 48 are for Meridiana and the remaining 20 for Journey. Now recased and very clean, bright and solid. Also, Myers, 39, p. 48. Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. The Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Henry L Shepard & Co, 1874.
Price: US$598.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FULL TITLE: A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (2nd American edition) Language English (original French) Written by Jules Verne Published by Henry L Shepard & Co, Boston, 1874 Illustrated by Edouard Riou DESCRIPTION: This is the 2nd American edition of The Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, published by Henry L. Shepard & Co in 1874. This edition was intended as a cheaper of version of Vernes second book, published in order to compete with the 1873 1st American edition by Scribner Armstrong. The lesser quality of the book can be seen in the offsetting of the sheets, broken type, limited number of illustrations, cloth binding, and more lax attention to detail. However, it remains a magical 2nd American edition of this iconic Jules Verne story, with 15 full-page illustrations by Riou, and a beautiful title page decorated with a vignette for an additional illustration. Brown pictorial cloth hardcover binding showing the explorers aboard their raft. Gilt cover still brilliant and lustrous, with spine decorations all intact. Spine decoration shows explorers journeying with two lanterns. Brown end-papers with tissue guard for frontispiece still clean and securely attached. CONDITION: Very good condition; an excellent example of this rare 2nd American edition of Jules Verne's second book; both boards completely attached, with both seams secure; gilt ornamentation on front cover completely intact & unblemished, likewise the gilt title decorations of the spine are perfectly intact with only slight fading; frontispiece tissue-guard clean and undamaged; all of the illustrations by Riou are present & undamaged; the text is also complete & meets collation; front free fly-leaf has a torn segment & thereby shows the only significant damage; corners of front and back boards show minor bumping, and the edges of the boards have only minimal wear & scuffing; occasional internal age-spotting; tiny fraying of last few leaves of the book; otherwise complete and securely intact, without any loose pages, rips, foxing, creases or folds. BOOK MEASUREMENTS: 19.5 cm X 14 cm TOTAL LENGTH: 294 pages
Seller: McClosky's Antiquarian Books & Cards, Georgina, ON, Canada
Verne, Jules. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Scribner Armstrong and Co., 1874.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1874. Presumably first edition. No copyright page. 384 pages. Red cloth boards with wear, soil. Liquid splatter mark to front panel. Wear and discoloration to spine and exterior hinges. Top corners bumped, bottom corners rubbed. Soil to interior front/back boards. Small insect hole, edge tear and dog-ear bottom corner to tissue guard. Previous owner's insription and an erasure to top corner of Title Page. Tanning throughout. Soil here and there.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$606.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Spine and boards bumped and scuffed. Mild foxing on some pages; does not interfere with text. Pencial marks on FEP. Please see photos as part of condition report 1874 1st Edition , US Edition A FLOATING CITY AND THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS By Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death. Illustrated By: Jules Ferat Jules-Descartes Férat (1829, Ham, Somme – 1906, Paris) was a French artist and illustrator, famous for his portrayals of factories and their workers. He illustrated the books of many known authors, such as Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Victor Hugo. Some critics consider his illustrations for Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island to be his greatest masterpieces. Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, New York octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 286 ISBN: A Floating City, or sometimes translated The Floating City, (French: Une ville flottante) is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871 in France. At the time of its publication, the novel enjoyed a similar level of popularity as Around the World in Eighty Days. The first UK and US editions of the novel appeared in 1874. Jules Férat provided the original illustrations for the novel. Plot - It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her abusive husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board. "The Blockade Runners" (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. Plot - The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and, later in the book, to rescue Halliburtt, the abolitionist journalist father of a young girl held prisoner (the father, not the girl) by the Confederates. Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early 1860s. SKU: BTETM0001669 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
VERNE, Jules.. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.. Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York, 1874.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 305 [8, ads] pp. With 20 engraved illustrations not included in pagination. 12mo, publisher's illustrated front wrapper; rear wrapper lacking. Cheap or Popular Edition. Rear wrapper lacking; splitting to the spine; front wrapper stained and with shallow chipping at edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition in green cloth decoratively lettered in gilt and with a blind stamped pattern on spine and both covers, pale yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and 47 additional full page interior illustrations. This is Myers' Printing A, on heavier paper stock, an advertisement on the verso of the title page for "A Journey to the Moon" and "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth", with two pages of ads at rear for these titles. Taves & Michaluk V009; Myers 39. New York: Scribner and Armstrong & Co. (1874), 232 pages. A Nearly Fine tight straight copy: Soft spine ends and tips modestly rubbed and bumped, a few small white flecks/spots to covers.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$785.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition; two books in one - Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa and A Journey To the Centre of the Earth. Brown cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and black, yellow endpapers. With 68 illustrations; 48 from Meridiana and 20 from Journey (there is are two of the same illustration (page 230) accidentally bound in, one after the other at the end of Meridiana. Eight pages of ads at rear. Taves & Michaluk V009; Myers 39. New York: Scribner and Armstrong & Co. (1874), 232 and 305 pages. VG copy with slightly sun lightened spine, small tear to cloth at crown, fraying/wear to spine ends and tips, modest rubbing. Previous owner's name sticker to f.f.e., penciled math problems to rear free end page.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Scribner Armstrong and Company, 1874.
Price: US$815.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scribner Armstrong and Company, New York (1874). First Scribner Armstrong Popular Edition. Undated 305 page edition. 20 Illustrations. Preceded by a 384 page Scribner Armstrong edition with 52 illustrations. Stamped in gold. Red variant cloth boards. Ads at page 307 with three titles: Meridiana, From the Earth to the Moon, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Book Condition: Good+, shelf wear, rubbing on the boards, light spots. Owner inscription at the second blank page dated 1874, rounded corners.
Seller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books, Opelika, AL, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-vi [vii-viii] 9-294 [295-296: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, title page vignette and 15 inserted plates with illustrations by Riou, publisher's pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, brown coated endpapers. Unauthorized U.S. edition, a piracy of the 1874 (i.e. 1873) Scribner, Armstrong edition. Presumed early copy with "H. L. Shepard Co." at the foot of the spine panel. Perhaps the first edition of this book to be printed in the U.S. The earliest edition published by Scribner, Armstrong was printed from the plates of the 1872 Sampson Low edition. Translation of VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE (1864). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-94 and (2004) II-1182. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2228. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 766. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1102-05. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 16. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14630. Taves and Michaluk V002. This edition not recorded by Myers. Cloth worn and frayed with shallow loss at spine ends and corner tips, some rubbing to cloth along outer joints and fore-edges, rear panel a bit rubbed and a bit soiled, a tight, clean, good copy with bright cover stamping. (#173592)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1495.80 + shipping
Description: First hardcover edition and first combined U.S. edition. With the advert on the verso of the title with one title; "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, $2.00." 8vo., orig. rust cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt and black on the upper cover and spine, viii, 323pp. With illustrations. This copy has been professionally rebacked with the original spine laid down; the spine is almost fully in tact, although there is loss of about 1"x1 ½" at the foot affecting the imprint and someone has somewhat crudely tried to replicate the missing text and design; the design at the head of the spine also appears to have been touched up with ink. There is a dampstain, which in the first half of the book is on the lower edge extending part way up the outer margin but becomes less pronounced about half way through the book.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pub by Scribner, Armstrong, [n.d.], ca:1874, possible 1st American edition. Good or better cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Alternate orange-brown cloth over bds w/ gilt & blind dec & lettering on cover & spine. "Scribner Armstrong" at bottom of Title Page and, though faded, is clearly printed at bottom of spine. Dec & titles on spine are legible but also faded. Light spot-blanching on covers. "Will Pennington" bookplate inside front cover, hand-dated 1874. Yellow eps, missing ffep. P/O's name & place in pencil on first remaining (blank) page. P/O's name & date in old pen at top of TP: "Pennington's book, Tuesday, Oct 13th, 1874." Lt-mdt wear to exterior -- prob sounds worse than it is. Hinges tender but holding well. Light soiling to first few & last few pages, o/w internally clean & unmarked. 20 b&w illustrations by Riou. 305pp. + 10pp. pub advts. Book is square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall Good or better cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Seller: Rivertown Fine Books, McGregor, IA, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. From The Earth To The Moon. Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, New York, 1874. True First US hardcover edition. With the advert on the verso of the title with one title; "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, $2.00." 8vo., orig. Deep and bright cobalt blue cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt and black on the upper cover and spine, viii, 323pp. With illustrations. Minor Rubbing to bottom edge of front and back covers. Some small damp stains to few pages, otherwise in near fine tight solid condition.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH .. Scribner, New York, 1874.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. [1-6] 1-305 [306: blank] [307-316: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, 20 illustrations by Riou, publisher's decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First printing of Scribner, Armstrong's "popular" edition. This undated 305-page edition with 20 full-page illustrations was preceded by a 384-page Scribner, Armstrong edition with 52 full-page illustrations, printed from the plates of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition. Although its title page is dated 1874, the Scribner, Armstrong edition was published 8 November 1873 at $2.00 per copy. Scribner, Armstrong's "popular" edition was published in June 1874 at 75¢ to undermine sales of the unauthorized edition published in Boston in 1874 by the Henry L. Shepard & Co. The "popular" edition may have been published simultaneously with Scribner, Armstrong's more lavish 413-page "complete" edition, which sold for $3.00. The "popular" edition advertises three Verne books published by Scribner, Armstrong, MERIDIANA, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, and A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (offered here in both "popular" and "complete" editions). Verne's second novel, a translation of VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE (1864). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-94 and (2004) II-1182. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2228. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 766. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1102-05. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 16. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14630. Myers 35. Taves and Michaluk V002. Cloth rubbed at edges and lightly soiled, else a clean, tight, very good or better copy. (#135416)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. By Jules Verne, Author of "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth." Translated from the French by Louis Mercier, M.A., (Oxon,) and Eleanor E. King. With Eighty Full Page Illustrations. New-York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874, First American Edition, decorative green cloth boards with black and gilt impressing: gilt spaceship traveling to the moon over mountains and an ocean on front board & a man perusing a bookshelf in a study at tail of spine with a crescent moon in the shadow of a full moon at head of spine. 323 pp, 8 x 5.5", 8vo. **Protective mylar dust jacket included with purchase. In fair condition. Green deco binding presents very well - gilt and black blind stamping is generally dulled from age. A small white scuff mark is exhibited on front board - above the gilt word "Moon" in title. Gilt lettering and deco on spine worn from tanning. Head and tail of spine bumped & cloth beginning to chip/fray. Provenance found on front paste-down. Light toning throughout text-block with some small instance of age-staining. Pages 122 - 142 (a complete signature) attached by cording only - fragile & needs repair. Small tea stain exhibited to top corners of approximately page 300 to end of text-block. Some instances of exposed cording throughout text-block. Binding is intact, however, repair is needed for loose signature. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Originally published in French in 1865 as De la Terre à la Lune, tract direct en 97 hears 20 minutes, this first American edition in English was published nine years later with illustrations - which includes the sequel story Around the Moon (which Verne completed in 1870). From the Earth to the Moon tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbian space gun and launch three people in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Verne's moon story is notable in that he attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate. However, his version of a space gun for a non-rocket space launch turned out to be impractical for safe human space travel since a much longer barrel would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers. However impractical it may be, Verne's novel influences several aspects of popular culture including H.G. Wells' 1901 novel The First Men on the Moon where the protagonist mentions Verne's novel to his companion. The first incarnation in 1995 of the roller coaster Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris, named Space Mountain: De la Terre à la Lune, was based loosely on the novel. Also, during they return journey from the Moon, the crew of Apollo 11 made reference to Verne's book during a TV broadcast on July 23, 1969. The mission's commander, Neil Armstrong said, "A hundred years ago, Jules Verne wrote a book about a voyage to the Moon. His spaceship, Columbia, took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the Moon. It seem appropriate to us to share with you some of the reflections of the crew as the modern-day Columbia completes in rendezvous with the planet Earth and the same Pacific Ocean tomorrow." Presents very well. Gift quality.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.