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Price: US$616.93 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The scarce first UK edition of Jules Verne's classic works of nineteenth century science fiction, 'From the Earth to the Moon' and 'Around the Moon'. The first UK edition of two classic science fiction novels by Jules Verne: 'De la Terre a la Lune' (1865) and its sequel, 'Autour de la Lune' (1870).These works were first combined in their original French in 1872, with this work being the first English language edition.Translated from the original French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventy-seven plates. Collated, lacking one plate.Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne's classic science fiction work is a somewhat prophetic account of man's first voyage to the moon.Verne's novel tells the story of a group named the Baltimore Gun Club, who attempt to build an enormous space gun in order to launch three people, in a projectile, to land on the moon.Verne's novel was referred to by Neil Armstrong during the 23rd July 1969 return journey of the Apollo 11, during a television broadcast. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Boards bright. Lacking back strip. Boards weakly held by a single cord each. Front free endpaper and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally, binding tender, with first 33 pages working loose. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting and light handling marks, most concentrated to pages surrounding plates. Lacking one plate. Two plates detached and loosely inserted. Fair
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS .. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [9] 10-291 [292: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, frontispiece (illustration of "Le Saint Michel") conjunct with title leaf, title page printed in red and black, publisher's pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, slate coated endpapers, all edges stained red. First edition in English. Verne's most popular novel. A translation (uncredited in this edition, but by George M. Towle) of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873). This edition, the first printed in the U.S., apparently preceded Osgood's 1873 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011. Binding slightly leaned, cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corners, small paper defect on the front flyleaf, a very good copy. A bright, attractive copy. (#173589)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xvi, 315 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece and 53 other full-page plates. Also an unlisted illustration of Verne's yacht the "Saint Michel" across from p xi. In-text illustration on p. 297. Green cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Spine deteriorated with chipped ends and holes in cloth. Corners worn. Front endpapers have signatures. Some slight chips to front free endpaper. Foxing and stains throughout. Signature on title page. Scarce 1873 printing of Verne's most popular novel. The book that provoked an interest in world circumference travel records that lasted to the age of space travel, a period of nearly 100 years. Lengthy introduction by Adrien Marx. Myers 54. Taves & Michaluk V011. First Illustrated US Edition with publication notice on title verso and 1873 printed at bottom of title. Printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the Sampson Low British first edition but with Osgood's title page.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First English edition. 78 of 80 plates. Scarce. Bound in publishers blue cloth. Gilt title and rocket shooting to the moon on front board. Rebacked according to original spine binding. AEG. Good binding and cover. Hinges repaired. Lacking p12 plate "Meeting of the Gun Club" and p95 plate "Projectile Trains for the Moon." Rubbing wear to boards. Scattered foxing. Tranlations of De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and its sequel Autour de la Lune (1870) as combined in the 1872 Paris edition. Landmark novel in science fiction. Voyages Extraordinaires #4. Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne's classic is somewhat a prophetic novel of man's travel to the moon with its thorough and descriptive detail. Verne notably attempted to do some rough calculations for the cannon and, considering the comparative lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures were close to actual measurement.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Around the World in Eighty Days. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, London, 1873.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very rare, with "1873" on the title page, the vast majority having the year "1874" on the title page. The book measures 5.25" x 7.5", 315 numbered pages. Illustrated with black-and-white plates throughout. Recently bound in beautiful green smooth goat leather, with gilt titling and raised bands to the spine. The book is in very good condition. Foxing to the fore-edges of the textblock with scattered foxing throughout. Two spots of rubbing to the fore-edge of the textblock. Lacks the frontispiece and the rear advertisements. A truly rare copy of this adventure classic. 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 #(F3-30).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] vi-viii [ix-xi] xii-xvi [1] 2-315 [316: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, 54 inserted plates with illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Benett, plus one small illustration by Benett in the text and an integral full-page sketch of the "Saint Michael" [sic, i.e. Michel] drawn by Verne, publisher's pictorial bevel-edged green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in blind, brown coated endpapers, all edges plain. First fully illustrated U.S. edition. A translation of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873), Verne's most popular novel. In the summer of 1873 Osgood published their first edition, THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, in a small pocket-sized format with a single illustration (Verne's sketch of his yacht, the "Saint Michel"). The first fully illustrated English-language edition was published in London by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle in November 1873. In November or December 1873 Osgood published their second edition of the novel which was printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low's 1873 edition. The Sampson Low and Osgood editions were reprinted with title pages dated 1874. The 1873 printings are very scarce. The book "seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition." - Arthur B. Edwards, "Collecting Jules Verne," Firsts, VI: 7-8 [July-August 1996], p. 42. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011. An early copy with "Christmas 1873" gift inscription in pencil on recto of front flyleaf and owner's signature, also dated "Christmas 1873," on same. Binding slightly leaned, cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, tight very good copy. A superior copy of this book and rare in this condition. (#96607)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Sampson, Low, 1873.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1873 first UK edition and the first illustrated edition in English. Rebound in leather. 1873 on the title page. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, London, 1873.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: First London edition, catalogue dated October 1873. Illustrated. xvi, 351, [1, blank]; 48 (catalogue) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First London edition of Jules Verne's great novel of adventure and transportation, Le tour du monde en quatre vingts jours (first pulished in Paris in 1872-3). Myers, p. 61 (1873 title page not seen) Original brick pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, a.e.g. Recased. Very good. Half morocco clamshell box Illustrated. xvi, 351, [1, blank]; 48 (catalogue) pp. 1 vols. 8vo First London edition, catalogue dated October 1873.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.