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Jules Verne. Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne - 1875. James R. Osgood and Company, 1875.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. There is some wear to the top and bottom of the spine. The gilt lettering and design on the spine and front cover is bright. There is some light rubbing to the outside boards. There is some wear to the hinges. The pages are clean and free of foxing. There are no books plates or signatures. This is an early edition printed in 1875 by James Osgood.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Dr. Ox and Other Stories. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small volume, approx 4 x 6" with decorated blue cloth showing a sailing vessel with Verne's signature beneath. Slight wear to edges and spine ends, spine somewhat darkened, forest green endpapers with prev owner's name faintly visible.
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
VERNE, Jules. Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other Stories. James R. Osgood, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 332 pages. Red boards with black & gilt lettering. Picture of man standing over an open trap door on front cover. Tissue torn out. Spine canted, shelf wear, corners and spine ends bumped and worn, rear hinge cracked, picture for page 9 detached, some soiling.
Seller: Zoar Books & Gallery, Rowe, MA, U.S.A.
VERNE, Jules. DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT, AND OTHER STORIES. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Original brick cloth stamped in black and gilt. Second American Edition but the first that is illustrated. First published in the U.S. as DR. OX, AND OTHER STORIES in 1874, the same year as the First English Edition, which had the same title as the present edition. Profusely illustrated. Illustration at page 64 lacking and apparently never bound in; pencil ownership name on front endpaper dated 1876. Splitting to front hinge but covers still firm. Fraying to spine tips. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other Stories. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First thus, first with this title and illustrated. Terra-cotta cloth, pictorially decorated in black and gilt on spine and cover, rear cover decorated in blind, brown endpapers. Tissue guarded frontispiece and numerous interior illustrations. Includes the four Jules Verne short stories plus the fifth story by Paul Verne, Jules' brother. Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company (1875), 332 pages. Good: Cocked, chipped spine ends, binding coming apart at front hinge, gift inscription dated Christmas 1876 on second free endpaper.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xi, 332 p., interspersed with plates. 20 cm. Frontispiece, title vignette, Contents page illustration, and 59 other b&w illustrations. Green cloth with black and gold impressing on front and spine, blank impressing on rear. Bevelled edges. Front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop while spine shows the earthbound "madman" who falls out of the balloon in "A Drama in the Air." Corners bumped, small tears in spine ends. Hinges crackng internally. Bookplate on front pastedown, tear in front free endpaper, section removed from next leaf with small ink notation. Mylar wrap (removed for photos). Includes four short stories by Jules as well as a fifth story by his brother Paul. The stories by Jules are among his earliest, "A Drama in the Air," his second story, appearing in an 1851 periodical. "Master Zacharius" was his fourth published story in 1854 and "A Winter amid the Ice" was his fifth in 1855. "Dr. Ox" did not appear until 1872. Paul's "Ascent of Mont Blanc" is at rear. Osgood published the first edition in English in mid-1874 in a small unillustrated volume. William F. Gill of Boston published the first somewhat-illustrated edition dated 1874 under the title "From the Clouds to the Mountains." Taves & Michaluk V012. Myers 16.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Verne, Jules. Dr. Ox's Experiment, and Other Stories. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First American fully-illustrated edition from the sheets of the first British edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth (others are in green, but no priority) pictorially decorated in black and gilt. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop, and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen out of the balloon in the story "A Drama in the Air." Brown end papers. In unusually nice condition with only very minor bumping at spine ends and front corners.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Dr. Ox's Experiment, and Other Stories. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1875.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First American fully-illustrated edition from the sheets of the first British edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth (others are in green, but no priority) pictorially decorated in black and gilt. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop, and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen out of the balloon in the story "A Drama in the Air." Brown end papers. In unusually nice condition with only very minor bumping at spine ends and front corners.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT, and other Stories. , 1875.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition, from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" (appeared in a periodical in 1851, his second story), "Master Zacharius" (1854, his fourth), and "A Winter amid the Ice" (1855, his fifth); "Dr. Ox's Experiment" itself did not appear until 1872. (Also included is "Ascent of Mont Blanc" by his brother Paul Verne.) Osgood had published the first edition in English in mid-1874, in a small unillustrated volume. William F. Gill of Boston published the first American (somewhat-) illustrated edition, dated 1874, under the title FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS. Then this copiously-illustrated Osgood edition came out in mid-1875, priced at a hefty $3.00. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop, and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen from the balloon in "A Drama in the Air." This copy is in terra-cotta cloth (others are in green or blue -- no priority). It is an unusually bright, very nearly fine copy (the slightest hint of wear at the top of the spine, magazine illustration tipped to the front endpaper). Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.