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Price: US$365.73 + shipping
Description: The fifth edition in English of one of Jules Verne's important and pioneering science fiction novels, a smart illustrated edition. The fifth edition in English.'From the Earth to the Moon', published with the sequel 'Around the Moon'.A thrilling adventure novel by Jules Verne, telling the story of a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts as they attempt to build a space gun to send people to the Moon.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventy-nine plates.Collated, complete.This edition was translated from French to English by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Spine is a little discoloured. Mark to the rear joint and rear board. Spots to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The second English language edition of these two thrilling tales from Jules Verne. Illustrated throughout, and in the publisher's decorative pictorial cloth. The second English language edition of this work, published the year after the first English edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-one plates. Collated, complete.The first of the two tales present in this volume is 'A Floating City', telling the tale of a woman onboard the SS Great Eastern alongside her abusive husband, who finds out that the man she loves is also on board.The second tale is 'The Blockade Runners', set during the American Civil War and following the exploits of a British merchant who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbour in South Carolina.With a forty page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated October 1874.An early edition of this work from the French novelist of best-selling adventure novels, best known for 'Journey to the Center of the Earth', 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas', and 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip fading. Boards bright. Hinges strained and somewhat tender. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally, binding a touch strained, with one plate detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright. Spotting to perimeters of first few leaves, with further handling marks and light spotting throughout. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth UK edition. 8vo. Original near-red cloth stamped in black and gilt. An attractive example of this early British edition of Verne's classic tale. Ink gift inscription to front endpaper, ink name to head of title; cloth slightly rubbed at extremities.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Island: Wrecked in the Air.. Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York, 1875.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, first English language edition in book form, and first authorized edition of the first part of the crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and In Search of the Castaways. Slim octavo, original green cloth decorated in gilt, with forty-eight illustrations. Scribner Armstrong published this slim, double-column volume at the end of October 1874, both in wrappers (now exceedingly rare) and cloth, as here. The book was announced as about to be published on October 24th, it was copyrighted on the 26thm and two deposit copies were received on the 31st. Meanwhile, Henry L. Shepard of Boston was rushing to press an "authentic" edition (as opposed to an "authorized" one, which Scribner Armstrong's was). On October 24th Shepard announced his was "ready," and on the 31st announced that it was "ready" in wrappers but "nearly ready" in cloth. In short, precedence is a matter of a day or two, perhaps even hours. Incidentally, this was the only "Part" of The Mysterious Island that Scribner Armstrong published in this format; they quickly republished it in their usual (shorter and squatter) format, and then published the following two parts in that format. In near fine condition. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds, The Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film, television, and radio broadcast.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Sampson Low, London, 1875.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy of this Verne classic in the publisher's original deluxe binding. First published in late 1873 (though most copies were dated 1874) this extraordinary voyage was an instant hit with the British public and went through 5 editions in a year. This is a copy of the 5th edition from 1875, the last to appear in the highly ornate binding with gilt edges used as on the first. The 6th from 1879 is already substantially plainer. Dark green, sand-grained cloth over bevelled boards with elaborate illustration and lettering in gilt and black to front cover and spine with blind rules to lower cover. All edges gilt, light peach endpapers. Squarish 8vo with 315pp text + 54 inserted plates including tissue-guarded frontis, all present. 48pp publisher's catalogue at rear dated January 1876 noting Verne's titles up to and including The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875). Very neat professional repair to small patches of wear at head and tail of spine using matching period cloth. Original ownership inscription from 1877 on verso of frontis. Slight, vague signs of shelf wear and handling but overall an exceptionally clean and bright copy of a very scarce work in this format - one of the iconic books of the modern world.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Island: Abandoned.. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1875.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of the second installment in Verne's Mysterious Island trilogy. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. In near fine condition. A very sharp example. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds, The Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film, television, and radio broadcast.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English in book form of the first volume of Verne's Mysterious Island trilogy, preceding the Scribner Armstrong's first American edition. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Armorial bookplates to the pastedown and front free endpaper. An exceptional example, scarce in this condition. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds, The Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film, television, and radio broadcast.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.