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Verne, Jules. Le Pays des Fourrures (Voyages Extraordinaires). Hetzel, Paris, 1873.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition - Monochrome edition L'obus with red cloth boards. Grand in-8. In french, all edges gilt, blue/grey end pages. Numerous illustrations throughout by Ferat and De Beaurepaire. Back cover Lenegre {b}. Jauzac pg.192. Paris: Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation; J. Hetzel et cie. (n.d. 1873), 412 pages. Nearly Fine with some sun fading to spine, modest rubbing/wear, unmarked interior with cracked front hinge. I have previously listed complete sets of UK and US Verne first editions. Now I am starting on a collection of 400 1st editions in French. This is an ongoing project, so please contact me for any you do not see listed yet. This has already resulted in sales to Italy, Switzerland, Hong Kong and the US.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Voyage Round the World. A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of his Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. First American edition in original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated and titled in gilt and black, decoratively stamped in blind on rear, beveled edges, brown endpapers. "illustrated with One Hundred and Seventy engravings". Four pages of ads at rear. Taves & Michaluk V005; Myers 34. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott (1873), 620 pages. This Good copy has edge wear and some rubbing; cloth fraying at spine ends, tips and fore edges. Somewhat shaken with cracked hinges.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [2 blanks]+620+[4, ads]+[2, blank] pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's full brick cloth, spine and front stamped in gilt and black; all edges trimmed and gilt. (Taves &Michaluk V005) First American edition (and first edition in English). This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. It is one of the few of Verne's works that Sampson Low never published in England. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately, either as Voyage Round the World, or as The Mysterious Document/On the Track and Among the Cannibals. This rare copy with all page edges gilt, one of very few known of. In fact there were very few American editions of any Verne title that was available with all edges gilt. Condition: Rear hinge beginning but still sound; couple of previous owner signatures and one label to front flyleaf; faint, marginal spot- and thumb-soiling scattered throughout else a near fine copy.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 620, [4] p. 23 cm. Half title and title vignettes. 137 full-page plates and numerous in-text illustrations, numbering over 170 altogether. Brown cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracking internally. Ink signature on a front endpaper. Stains to bottom margins pp. 158-9 affecting a couple of leaves in both directions. Some light stains and thumbing elsewhere. Tear in margin of p. 399. Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as "Les Enfants du Captain Grant." One of the few Verne works that Sampson Low never published in Britain. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately. Taves & Micheluk V005. Myers 34. First US Edition and first edition in English.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada