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Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, Limited, London. 79 illustrations. Decorative Olive Green cloth Hardcover. Spine and front decorated in black, blue and yellow. Some chipping to bottom of spine, beveled edges rubbed and corners bumped but otherwise good. All edges gilt. Green patterned endpapers. Some small circular oil marks on printer's page, as well as a little foxing to protective tissue paper before title page (approx 4 spots) with even less to title page. Binding tender in spots, loose near middle. Some markings to inner leaves, including a pencil mark and oil markings on final blank page. A scarce copy of a beautiful and rare book. Postage will be extra due to handling insurance.
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition and first edition in English. No translator given. Octavo. pp viii, 382. Seventy-nine illustrations. All edges gilt. Green pictorial buckram blocked in gilt, black, blue and white, bevelled edges.Short tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Front hinge cracking. Spine and edges rubbed. Good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1293.02 + shipping
Description: 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). vii, 382pp. 79 b/w plates. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
VERNE, Jules. The Floating Island or The Pearl Of The Pacific. Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1896.
Price: US$1370.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first English edition. Measures 7.5 in x 5.5 in; green cloth with bevelled edges, pictorial front board & spine in green, blue & gilt. All edges gilt, 382pp, green patterned endpapers, 79 b&w illus. Very good cloth, rubbed at corners & at head & foot of spine, small mark to rear board.Old gift inscription to half title. Pages and plates generally clean and bright with very occasional marks. Along with all Jules Verne first printings, this is scarce and collectable edition.
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Description: First English edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth over bevelled boards, illustrated in black, white and gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated title page and 79 full page steel engravings. Tissue guard to the frontispiece. An excellent, better than very good copy, the binding firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and corners. The contents with two previous owner's names (dated 1912 and August 1966) to the front endpaper, the latter owner's small bookplate to the upper left corner of the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout. The inner front hinge is slightly tender and cracked but holding. A very attractive example of the first edition in English, translated by W. J. Gordon and published in October 1896, preceding the first American edition by just over a year. This is the "deluxe" issue binding with bevelled boards and extra gilt blocking, there was also a "standard" issue on lighter boards with only the titles in gilt. (Bleiler). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
VERNE, Jules. THE FLOATING ISLAND or The Pearl of the Pacific. Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1896.
Price: US$3848.28 + shipping
Description: First English edition. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt background blocking to upper cover and spine. All edges gilt. A near fine copy, with the susceptible white borders and gilt blocking present and bright. Just a little wear to the spine ends and tenderness to the hinges. A most attractive example. Seventy-nine full page steel engravings.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom