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Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Undated, c1873. Red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and black and silver gilt lettering to front. Boards are marked and generally grubby. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine is age darkened with bumping to ends. Somewhat cocked. Age discolouration to endpages. 7 illustrations. Rear inner hinge is beginning to crack. The binding is loose; the bundles are separating. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally in good order. 160 pp. Previous owner's mark to ffep. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 253g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £13.35 (Europe) and £21.85 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 033548:14b) Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall 253 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Third English Edition, issued the same year as the First UK Edition. Octavo, rebound in 19th Century quarter black morocco over pebbled cloth covered boards,the spine with gilt rules and titled "Under The Seas in gilt. 303 pp. Of the 112 full-page illustrations, 15 are lacking and are presumed to have been remove (rather than never having been bound in). moderate foxing and small stains throughout; ink name on front paste-down that has been long ago crossed out in pen; a sound, good copy of this classic. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Originally published in Paris 1869-1870 under the title 'Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers') is a classic science fiction adventure novel. Widely acclaimed on its release, it remains so; it is regarded as one of the premier adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works. Its depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels. With the only copy of the 1st UK printing on the market being priced at $25,000 US, one might consider this as a slightly more affordable option.
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
Price: US$585.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Complete Text Of The Louis Mercier-Eleanor King Translation, Extracted From The St. James Magazine Issues Of July Through December 1873, Published Anonymously In 28 Chapters With All Illustrations, Predating The October 1873 First English Hardcover Edition Published By Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. In October ( Reported In The Atheneum #2398 Of October 11, 1873 As A New Book From Them). Pages Have No Titles To Identify The Source, But Page Numbers At Top And Codes At Bottom Of Pages Match Those For The St. James Issues Held At The University Of Illinois At Urbana- Champaign And Reported Thru Hathitrust. Pages Bound In Quarter Leather With All But First Four Chapters Of Verne's "Three Englishmen And Three Russians In South Africa" And All Of "The Fatal Inheritance" And "The Two Brothers" By Other Authors. Binding Worn, Spine Mostly Perished (Spine Label And Some Leather Laid In Loosely), But All Pages Clean, No Damage, And Illustrations Are Very Strong, Clean Impressions Rivaling Those In The Hardcover Edition.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$622.38 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The scarce first UK edition of Jules Verne's classic works of nineteenth century science fiction, 'From the Earth to the Moon' and 'Around the Moon'. The first UK edition of two classic science fiction novels by Jules Verne: 'De la Terre a la Lune' (1865) and its sequel, 'Autour de la Lune' (1870).These works were first combined in their original French in 1872, with this work being the first English language edition.Translated from the original French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventy-seven plates. Collated, lacking one plate.Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne's classic science fiction work is a somewhat prophetic account of man's first voyage to the moon.Verne's novel tells the story of a group named the Baltimore Gun Club, who attempt to build an enormous space gun in order to launch three people, in a projectile, to land on the moon.Verne's novel was referred to by Neil Armstrong during the 23rd July 1969 return journey of the Apollo 11, during a television broadcast. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Boards bright. Lacking back strip. Boards weakly held by a single cord each. Front free endpaper and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally, binding tender, with first 33 pages working loose. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting and light handling marks, most concentrated to pages surrounding plates. Lacking one plate. Two plates detached and loosely inserted. Fair
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
JULES VERNE. FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , LOW AND SEARLE, LONDON, 1873.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: JULES VERNE,S FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. 8vo. Pp, viii, 323, [1]. 79 of 80 plates present ,lacks last . Spine has been relaid plus new end papers. Some pencil marks also original owners signature on title page. A certain amount of light brown marks throughout ,page 201 is damaged on bottom edge. Book for its age is good and very much collectable.Fore edges are all gold, some wear but on the whole good.
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Jules Verne. Round the Moon, author's Copyright Edition. Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd., 1873.
Price: US$795.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Round the Moon, A sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, by Jules Verne,First English edition, translated from the French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E King, with coloured frontispiece. Author's Copyright edition, a rare edition. Published by Sampson Low, Marston and company, Ltd. undated, 1873 edition. Pencil inscription on front end-paper has date of 1915. Frontispiece page has pulled away slightly at binding but is intact. Hard cover with illustrated cloth. Illustrated front cover with black titles, decoration and gold titles to spine. Cover has bumped corners and top and bottom of spine. A few marks to the back but generally good. Contents are good with occasional foxing and a few brown stains to edges and on pages. 183 pages.
Seller: Alan's Books, Rugby, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS .. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [9] 10-291 [292: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, frontispiece (illustration of "Le Saint Michel") conjunct with title leaf, title page printed in red and black, publisher's pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, slate coated endpapers, all edges stained red. First edition in English. Verne's most popular novel. A translation (uncredited in this edition, but by George M. Towle) of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873). This edition, the first printed in the U.S., apparently preceded Osgood's 1873 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011. Binding slightly leaned, cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corners, small paper defect on the front flyleaf, a very good copy. A bright, attractive copy. (#173589)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xvi, 315 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece and 53 other full-page plates. Also an unlisted illustration of Verne's yacht the "Saint Michel" across from p xi. In-text illustration on p. 297. Green cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Spine deteriorated with chipped ends and holes in cloth. Corners worn. Front endpapers have signatures. Some slight chips to front free endpaper. Foxing and stains throughout. Signature on title page. Scarce 1873 printing of Verne's most popular novel. The book that provoked an interest in world circumference travel records that lasted to the age of space travel, a period of nearly 100 years. Lengthy introduction by Adrien Marx. Myers 54. Taves & Michaluk V011. First Illustrated US Edition with publication notice on title verso and 1873 printed at bottom of title. Printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the Sampson Low British first edition but with Osgood's title page.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First English edition. 78 of 80 plates. Scarce. Bound in publishers blue cloth. Gilt title and rocket shooting to the moon on front board. Rebacked according to original spine binding. AEG. Good binding and cover. Hinges repaired. Lacking p12 plate "Meeting of the Gun Club" and p95 plate "Projectile Trains for the Moon." Rubbing wear to boards. Scattered foxing. Tranlations of De la Terre a la Lune (1865) and its sequel Autour de la Lune (1870) as combined in the 1872 Paris edition. Landmark novel in science fiction. Voyages Extraordinaires #4. Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne's classic is somewhat a prophetic novel of man's travel to the moon with its thorough and descriptive detail. Verne notably attempted to do some rough calculations for the cannon and, considering the comparative lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures were close to actual measurement.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$2309.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U. K. edition, 1873. Some foxing in places. Publishers pictorial green cloth with bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Rebacked with the original spine laid down ( hardly noticeable). Original endpapers retained. Some light marking to rear board. corners lightly bumped. Slight crease across front board. Generally a very good copy of the scarce first U. K. edition. 323 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$2650.00 + shipping
Description: [a handsome copy] Translated from the French. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 32 pp ads dated October 1872. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt. First British Edition, also the first edition in the English language. Three Englishmen. and three Russians. and their guide, a bushman named Mokoum, set out to measure the arc of a meridian in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Everything is going well, until war is declared between England and Russia. [Kytasaari] This tale was initially published in the original French in 1872, as AVENTURES DE TROIS RUSSES ET DE TROIS ANGLAIS DANS L'AFRIQUE AUSTRALE. Sampson Low's English edition, titled MERIDIANA (with the subtitle's nationalities reversed in favor of the Englishmen), was issued in November 1872 but was dated 1873 (as here). In the same month, some of these copies (printed and bound in England) were exported to the U.S. and equipped with the title page of Scribner's import house, Scribner, Welford and Armstrong (likewise dated 1873) -- technically the American issue of the first English edition, and extremely scarce today. Scribner Armstrong (sans Welford) then published the first edition actually produced in America; there was also an unauthorized American edition by Shepard, titled ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF THE BEHEMOTH, with an altered translation and fewer illustrations, published on the very same day. This edition has one of the great Verne pictorial bindings: a phalanx of crocodiles hungrily approaches an oblivious man holding a parasol. This copy is in green cloth (one of several colors used, without priority), and has an ad catalogue dated October 1872 -- which we think is the earliest date (we have also seen October 1873). The volume is just a little askew (as always) and a few gatherings stand slightly proud, but this is a fine, bright copy, without any restoration or "improvement" of any kind. An early Verne edition that is quite scarce in this condition. Taves & Michaluk V009; Myers 39.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] vi-viii [ix-xi] xii-xvi [1] 2-315 [316: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, 54 inserted plates with illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Benett, plus one small illustration by Benett in the text and an integral full-page sketch of the "Saint Michael" [sic, i.e. Michel] drawn by Verne, publisher's pictorial bevel-edged green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in blind, brown coated endpapers, all edges plain. First fully illustrated U.S. edition. A translation of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873), Verne's most popular novel. In the summer of 1873 Osgood published their first edition, THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, in a small pocket-sized format with a single illustration (Verne's sketch of his yacht, the "Saint Michel"). The first fully illustrated English-language edition was published in London by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle in November 1873. In November or December 1873 Osgood published their second edition of the novel which was printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low's 1873 edition. The Sampson Low and Osgood editions were reprinted with title pages dated 1874. The 1873 printings are very scarce. The book "seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition." - Arthur B. Edwards, "Collecting Jules Verne," Firsts, VI: 7-8 [July-August 1996], p. 42. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011. An early copy with "Christmas 1873" gift inscription in pencil on recto of front flyleaf and owner's signature, also dated "Christmas 1873," on same. Binding slightly leaned, cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, tight very good copy. A superior copy of this book and rare in this condition. (#96607)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First British edition. Sampson Low published this first edition in English November 1872 (though dated 1873). James Osgood published the first American edition from these same Sampson Low plates, and this was soon followed by the George Smith edition. This scarce copy in royal blue cloth, pictorially decorated in black and gilt, rear cover ruled, and with publisher's device in blind, all edges gilt, beveled. With all 112 illustrations, including tissue guarded frontispiece. Eight pages of ads dated "1872-3" at rear. Taves & Michaluk V006; Myers 56. Now housed in a beautiful navy blue clamshell, lined with marble paper and titled in gilt on the spine; 1" tear to clamshell near crown. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle (1873), 303 pages. Good+ copy. Darkened spine, rubbed and rather worn spine ends and corners with about 3/16" of cloth chipped missing at crown. Hinges cracked but holding with small book owner label on front pastedown and erased inscription dated March 1873 on f.f.e. Burn and Co. bindery ticket on rear pastedown.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.