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Verne, Jules. Caesar Cascabel. Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1890.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair, no DJ First American Edition; scarce thus. Significant wear to spine ends, edges, and corners, hinges cracked but holding, frontis and title/copyright pages loose but present, light foxing and age tanning, else decent copy. Binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked.
Seller: Nick of All Trades, Penn Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. CAESAR CASCABEL. Cassell, 1890.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: CAESAR CASCABEL, Cassell, 1890, first edition in English, some wear to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, some dust-soiling to the covers, else a good to very good copy in the publishers original dark blue and gold-gilt stamped pictorial binding. Precedes the Britlish edition. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet and illustrated by George Roux.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Caesar Cascabel. Cassell Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1890.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light green cloth, gold and black art and titles, horse drawn wagon climbing a mountain road. Bumps to spine ends, shelfwear to corners and edges, boards somewhat soiled, sound and unmarked, hinges O.K. Many great illus showing the adventures of a traveling circus. Early US printing; possibly a first? Misplaced in our inventory, this copy has now been rediscovered!
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Caesar Cascabel. Cassell Pub. Co., New York, 1890.
Price: US$224.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice solid copy, first American. Illustrations printed on one side. Yellow boards with pictorial cover and spine in black, gilt lettering.Minor soiling on cover.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 inches x 7 3/8 in., frontispiece(The Magician Fir-Fu.-Page 138; G. Roux/T. Molier); title-page; contents; iv, 373 pp., with a circular vignette at p. iv, and a total of eighty illustrations, one used as the frontispiece; the illustrations are printed back-to-back (except at p. 137), and based on the originals by George Roux (ca. 1850-1929). Blue cloth with the titling gilt on the spine, with a design in black, and gilt titling on the front cover with a design in black, based on the illustration at page 30, blind-stamped borders on the back cover. Text and integral illustrations are printed on a thin, newsprint type paper stock, which has tanned with age. The spine ends show some wear, with small splits to the cloth, wear to the cover corners, light stain on p. 137.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Cassell Publishing Company. G/No Dustjacket. (1890). . Decorative Cloth. 8vo., 373 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, soiled,page toning & foxing .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Caesar Cascabel. Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1890.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition in grey cloth pictorially decorated in black, gilt titled spine and cover. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations by Geoge Roux. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Taves & Michaluk V037; Myers 7. New York: Cassell Publishing Company (1890), 373 pps. VG copy with soft tips and spine ends, cloth shows some wear and modest soiling. Front end pages have some foxing and short gift inscription on f.f.e.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [i-ii] iii-iv 1-373 [374: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], 84 inserted plates with full-page illustrations by George Roux, plus a small vignette on page iv, original pictorial gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First edition in English. A family of circus performers stranded in America after their money is stolen decide to return to Europe via the Bering Straits. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Myers 7. Taves and Michaluk V037. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, front cover and spine panel soiled, several small stains to fore-edge of text block, a sound, tight copy with clean interior. (#101926)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: iv+373 pages with eighty-one plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in the variant mustard cloth with spine and cover lettering in gilt and black pictorial on spine and cover. Translated from the French by A Estoclet. Illustrations by George Roux. (Gallagher, Mistichelli and Van Eerde: A69) First American edition preceding the English edition. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. 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, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. Caesar Cascabel recounts the journey of the travelling circus of the Cascabel family, from Sacramento as far as European Russia, while passing by Canada, Alaska, the Strait of Behring and Siberia. The head of the Cascabel household had to start this perilous voyage after the money intended to pay the tickets of the boat, which was to take them along to France from New York, was stolen by thieves. So, Caesar crosses initially the vast forests of Canada. At the border of Alaska, they save the life of Mr Jean, a banished Russian aristocrat who had been just attacked by outlaws. They also make the acquaintance on this occasion of Kayette, a young Indian woman, who had also dashed for the noble Russian. After having waited a few weeks that the Strait of Behring freezes, all the family finally thrusts upon the sea of ice but, in the medium of the crossing, the temperature of the air increases dangerously and the ice is parceled out. The caravan of the Cascabels is detached soon from the ice-barrier on an iceberg and our heroes start to drift across the Arctic Ocean. When the Cascabels finally manage to reach the northern coast of Siberia, they are made prisoners by a local tribe who requires from them a ransom for their release that they cannot obviously provide. Next spring, Cesar Cascabel, by using its gift of ventriloquy, frightens the chief of the tribe and manages to obtain his release. The Cascabel company, meanwhile, increased its numbers with two Russian sailors who were also prisoners. These sailors are in fact the two brigands who had attacked Mr Jean in the Canadian forest. They now envisage to rob Cascabel, with the assistance of accomplices, when the company is crossing the chain of the Ural. Meanwhile, Jean and Kayette fall in love and see with anxiety come the time of the separation. Condition: Corners gently bumped, light age toning to preliminary pages, some internal fingering, end paper renewed, spine darkened else a very good copy.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Caesar Cascabel. Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1890.
Price: US$680.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bright Tourquoise Boards in very good or better condition, very light edge wear . Inside pages clean and unmarked. Really nice book. With over eighty full page illustrations from the originals by George Roux.
Seller: Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books, Bethany, MO, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Cæsar Cascabel. Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1890.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cæsar Cascabel by Jules Verne. First American edition in original orange cloth with gold lettering. Publisher: Cassell Publishing Company, New York, (1890). Binding is in near fine condition, a few ink scrawls to back cover. Contents clean. Paper with mild toning with age. 373 pages. 6 x 8 ½ inches. With 80 wood-engraved plates. Tight copy. It is the story of a journey. Some acrobats wish to travel from California to their native France, and having no money they determine to go in their caravan northward to Bering's Straits, crossing on the ice, and make their way through Siberia into Europe. The travelers are generally successful: in spite of robbers, icebergs, and the Russian police, the bold Frenchmen triumphantly reach their goal. Pictured on the front cover is the troupe with their horse-drawn wagon climbing into the Sierras, while the spine shows one of them fleeing a grizzly bear. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #20-106. Price: $750
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. CAESAR CASCABEL. , 1890.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Illustrated by George Roux. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, n.d. [1890]. Original light blue cloth pictorially decorated in black. First American Edition (also the first edition in English). Quoting from a contemporary review (cited in T&M) -- Like most of M. Jules Verne's books, it is the story of a journey. Some acrobats wish to travel from California to their native France, and having no money they determine to go in their caravan northward to Bering's Straits, crossing on the ice, and make their way through Siberia into Europe. M. Jules Verne's travellers are generally successful: in spite of robbers, icebergs, and the Russian police, the bold Frenchmen triumphantly reach their goal. Pictured on the front cover is the troupe with their horse-drawn wagon climbing into the Sierras, while the spine shows one of them fleeing a grizzly bear. This undated American edition (CAESAR) was published sometime in the autumn of 1890, probably late September; Sampson Low's London edition (CESAR) was not published until over a year later, in November 1891. This copy is in light blue cloth; we have also had copies in olive green and in mint green (no priority). It is a near-fine copy (light foxing on the leaves within, but the light-colored cloth is remarkably clean and bright, and there is scarcely any wear. There is a Christmas 1890 ownership inscription on the front flyleaf. Taves & Michaluk V037; Myers 7.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
VERNE, Jules. Caesar Cascabel. Cassell Publishing Co, New York, 1890.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, black decoration. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Illustrated by George Roux. Bleiler listed title. Very Good firmly bound volume, modest shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.