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Price: US$637.69 + shipping
Description: [Science Fiction] SECOND US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 345 [5]. With 48 heliotype illustrations on 12 plates, reproducing the originals from the French edition by Riou, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's apricot cloth, titled and illustrated in black and gilt to spine and upper. Brown endpapers. Lightly browned with occasional spotting throughout. Many plates chipped and torn to margins. Final plate lacking tissue guard. Spine sunned and toned, with rubbing and water staining to cloth. Good. The author's first full-length novel, originally published in an English translation in 1869. A fantasy adventure charting the travels of a balloon over the 'dark continent,' and a satire on English books of African exploration.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Five Weeks in a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen, Compiled in French by Jules Verne, From the Original Notes of Dr. Ferguson. And Done Into English by William Lackland. With 48 Heliotype Illustrations, James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873, frontispiece, 345 pp, rust colored illustrated cloth, 8 x 5, 8vo. In fair condition. Modest soiling to surface of cloth with moderate with to extremities. Cloth quite darkened from age and wear. Corners are rubbed with slight crushing, end bands slightly frayed and rubbed. Gilt work rubbed along spine and balloon on front cover. Spine slanted slightly. Old hand signature of James S. Callahan Geneva, N.Y dated 1875 on fly. Second fly soiled with previously erased ownership and fingersoiling. Text block is slightly toned with areas of finger soiling and age stain. Some light foxing throughout, as to be expected. Two plates are loose, 69 pp. 99 pp. Plate 99pp is soiled and chipped at bottom edge. Free of known marginalia. Rear pastedown and fly have old hand ownerships as well. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. First illustrated deluxe edition of Vernes first full-length novel, originally published in an English translation in 1869. Second U.S. edition. A fantasy adventure charting the travels of a balloon over the dark continent, and a satire on English books of African exploration.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Five Weeks in A Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa. James R. Osgood, 1873.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Five Weeks in A Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa" by Jules Verne. James R. Osgood, Boston. 1873 first American illustrated edition of Jules Verne's first book. Some rubbing to boards. Overall, a very good copy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-8 [8a-8b] [9] 10-345 [346-348: blank], 48 illustrations by Riou reproduced by Heliotype on twelve inserted plates, each with tissue guard, publisher's pictorial salmon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in blind, brown coated endpapers. Second U.S. edition, first printing. Verne's first book, first published in Paris by Hetzel in 1863 as CINQ SEMAINES EN BALLOON: VOYAGES DE DECOUVERTES EN AFRIQUE. ". the first of Verne's voyages extraordinaires, this tale established the conventions which he employed throughout his fiction." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 764. Osgood's edition, first published in 1873, was preceded by Appleton's 1869 edition. In contrast to Appleton's more modest edition with six inserted plates, the Osgood edition featured an elaborately stamped pictorial binding and 48 stunning illustrations by Riou reproduced by the Heliotype process on twelve inserted plates. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-148 and (1981) 1-160. Bleiler (1948), p. 24. Reginald 14618. Myers 20. Taves and Michaluk V001. Spine panel just a bit sunned, piece torn out of the upper right eighth of the front flyleaf, probably removing an early owner's name, else a very good or better copy with fine interior. The most fully illustrated early American edition of this seminal novel and perhaps the most beautiful of the English-language editions of Verne's books. All three printings (the second and third dated 1874 and 1875 respectively) of this edition are uncommon, especially in nice condition. (#173607)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American, thus - first full illustrated American edition (2nd American edition after Appleton) in peach vertically-ribbed moire cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and black on spine and cover, decoratively ruled in blind on rear cover, brown endpapers. Translated by "William Lackland" with tissue guarded frontispiece and tissue guarded 12 plates of 48 Heliotype illustrations. 10 page catalog followed by 2 page list of New Publications listing eight titles at rear. Taves & Michaluk V001; Myers 20. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company (1873), 345 pps. VG - Tight straight spine, nice gilt. Modest sunning to spine and minimal soiling and wear.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.