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Price: US$102.21 + shipping
Description: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 191pp. 9 engraved plates. Translated from the French by Ellen E. Frewer. Worn condition. Covers rubbed with damage and loss to spine. Occasional minor marks and foxing within. Content in overall good condition. r4/17sm 46/50 Maroon half-leather over marbled boards
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$132.34 + shipping
Description: London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1876. 8vo. Clothbound with orig. illust. limp boards bound in. (126 18 pp.). With frontisp. and 12 illusts. Book adverts at end dated April 1876.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: Octavo size (8vo) in printed card wrappers, 190pp, 16pp publishers ads at rear (dated April 1876) plus advert end-papers. frontispiece, plus 12 other full page plates CONDITION: GOOD+ (some loosening between sewn sections, grey cloth flour pasted (or similar) over spine as repair or strengthening with ink title to spine (examination under very bright light shows most of the original printed spine is still present below the tape), small defection to bottom corner tip of front cover, covers rubbed and dusty, aside from some very mild foxing the leaves are otherwise clean) ] __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in an old full leather binding, this is an early British edition of this classic from Jules Verne, the book is divided into two parts, each with its own dated title page, here bound together in one volume, illustrated with nine plates across the two parts, with a couple of other illustrations within the text (all plates are present) the binding has some noticeable signs of wear and age with scuffs and scrapes to the leather, the leather is worn at corners, small splits to leather at spine end edges. Internally old presentation bookplate to front pastedown, one gathering is standing slightly proud of the text block and has some browning and wear outer page edges, creasing wear to a few page corners, mild foxing / browning to a few pages, else in good general condition.
Seller: Andrew Cox PBFA, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$231.59 + shipping
Description: London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1876. 8vo. Clothbound with orig. illust. boards bound in. (160 16 pp.). With 7 full-page b/w illusts. Book adverts. at end. Slightly foxed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-208 + 24-page catalogue dated "April, 1877" inserted at rear, nine illustrations by J. Ferat, publisher's pictorial green cloth stamped in black, gold and blind, all edges gilt, light yellow coated endpapers. First printing of Sampson Low's "author's illustrated edition." A translation of UNE VILLE FLOTTANTE (1871). Verne's short novel, "A Floating City," was inspired by his voyage to America in 1867 aboard The Great Eastern. Myers 22. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 IV, p. 317. 1877 Christmas gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Cloth lightly worn at edges, spine lean, a very good copy. A scarce edition. (#173583)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 302 p. Includes illustrations. Translated from the French. Bound in two parts with separate title page and contents. Nine illustrations including frontispieces. Leather spine and corner coverings over marbled boards. Spine has been repaired with red leather, whereas the corners are black. Binding is solid. Corners are worn and rounded. Some foxing, mostly on end pages. No ownership or marks.
Seller: Steven Edwards, Coalmont, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-358 [359-360: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, engraved title and 55 inserted plates with illustrations by Riou, publisher's pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, brown coated endpapers. Second (first illustrated) U.S. edition. Translation (by Ellen E. Frewer) of LE CHANCELLOR: JOURNAL DU PASSAGER J.-R. KAZALLON; MARTIN PAZ (1875). Osgood's new edition was printed in England by Gilbert and Rivington from plates prepared for the 1875 Sampson Low edition; it was probably bound in America. This edition was preceded by Osgood's 285-page unillustrated edition published in 1875 as THE WRECK OF THE CHANCELLOR. The 1876 Osgood edition includes the short novel "Martin Paz." Myers 47. Taves and Michaluk V014. Corner tips worn, spine ends a bit soft, some rubbing to cloth along outer joins and fore-edges, some rubbing and scuffing to front and rear panels, binding tender between front free endpaper and first leaf of the preliminary gathering, else a good or better copy with clean interior. A scarce edition of this work. (#173601)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1152.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A lovely copy of this contemporary bound book. Two volumes bound as one160pp; 189pp. From the earth to the moon has 7 full page illustrative plates as called for and Five weeks in a balloon is illustrated with numerous drawings in the text. This book was published in 1876 as the author's illustrated edition. Translated from the original French. Bound in original contemporary leather with marbled boards. 5 bands to the spine and gilt embossed lettering to the two title blocks on the spine. Cloth page divider still attached at the head of the spine. There is rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the board corners, leaving the leather with slight loss and a little rounded. Light fading to the leather spine. There is loss of the edges of the title blocks with some loss of the gilt lettering. A very slight split to the head of the spine between the rear board and spine strip. Previous owners gilt name and address sticker to the head of the front paste down with a small red sticker with the number 34 within it. A neat sepia ink name inscription to the reverse of the front end paper with a stamp G.E.T. to the tail of the same page and also to the tail of the reverse of the rear end paper. Some foxing to the reverse of the front end paper, preliminary blank page, title page and last few pages of the book. Occassional scattered light foxing elsewhere. Otherwise the book is clean and tight. A very good tight copy.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Jules Verne. Dropped From the Clouds (Mysterious Island) UK 2nd Edition. Sampson Low, 1876.
Price: US$1495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dropped From the Clouds, Jules Verne (1876), UK, Sampson Low Publisher. 2nd Edition. UK. Condition: Very good. Minimal wear. A nice copy
Seller: JayLin Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First American and First Edition in English. Contemporary 3/4 black leather binding, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, gilt decoration and lettering at spine reading "Novels". The extremely scarce first English printing of this Russian set adventure novel by Verne, published first as a series in Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner (magazine) and then by the same publisher as a separate illustrated wrappers edition, 126 pages, in two parts and with two content pages. The first hardcover editions by Scribner's and Sampson Low followed months later. This is the separate wrappers edition, bound together with several other contemporary novels but without the wrappers bound in. Also included in the volume is The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins, published by Harper and Brothers in 1876, an early printing; The Laurel Bush by Dinah Maria Craik, first edition by Harper and Brothers in 1876, and others. Very Good volume, front inner hinge cracked, modest scuffing to leather.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of the final installment in Verne's Mysterious Island Trilogy. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. In near fine condition. An exceptionally bright example. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. 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 (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds, The Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film, television, and radio broadcast.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-ii] [i-iii] iv-vi [vii] viii [1] 2-299 [300: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, illustrations by J. Ferat, publisher's pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First U.S. edition, first printing. A Robinsonade intended by Verne to be a sequel to TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS (1870) and IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS (1867-1868). In THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND Captain Nemo dies of old age and is entombed in the Nautilus. In September 1875 Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle published THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in three volumes subtitled DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, ABANDONED and THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND. In November 1875 Scribner, Armstrong brought out their uniform three-volume edition which was printed in Boston using Sampson Low plates. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2234. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 767. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 19. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14634. Myers 42. Taves and Michaluk V013. 1878 gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Just a hint of rubbing at head and tail of spine panel and corners, a fine, bright copy. A lovely copy of an uncommon book. (#173605)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London, 1876, all three volumes of the trilogy of the Mysterious Island, The Secret of the Island, 2nd edition, good minor wear, Abandoned, 2nd edition, gilt is bright good plus and Dropped from the Clouds, 2nd edition bright very good
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$2369.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd, 1st & 1st eds, VG+, 148 illustrations. 3 vols, in modern half blue morocco, blue cloth, gilt tooling. Spines, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, new endpapers, a.e.g. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. Part 1: Dropped from the Clouds, 2nd ed, 1876, frontis, [5], (vi-viii), [1], 2-310 pp, 49 illust. Part 2, Abandoned,1st ed, 1875, frontis, [3], (iv-viii), [1], 2-304 pp, 50 illust. Vol 3, Secret of the Island, 1st ed, 1875, frontis, [3], (iv-viii), [1], 2-299 pp, [1], (iii) adverts, [1], 39 adverts, 49 illust. Light damp stain to frontis & a couple of leaf margins of Part 1, but a very good set. (186*132 mm). Triolgy relating the adventures of a group of balloonists marooned on an island. 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. See Wiki.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-x [xi] xii-xiv [xv] xvi-xviii [xix] xx [xxi] xxii [xxii] xxiv [1-2] [1] 2-310 [1-2] [1] 2-304 [1-2] [1] 2-299 [300: blank] [301-304: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, 149 full page illustrations by J. Ferat (integral to text leaves, not inserted plates, but not reckoned in the pagination), publisher's pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First combined edition, first printing. An authorized edition of DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, the first part of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, was first published in book form in the Fall of 1874 by Scribner, Armstrong as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND . WRECKED IN THE AIR to compete with a pirated edition published at or about the same time by Henry L. Shepard as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. PART FIRST, SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR. In September 1875 Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle published THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in three volumes subtitled DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, ABANDONED and THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND. In November 1875 Scribner, Armstrong brought out their uniform three-volume edition which was printed in Boston using Sampson Low plates. Sometime before 31 March 1876 Scribner, Armstrong published their combined edition which sold for $3.00, half the cost of the three-volume set. Three other combined editions of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, all unauthorized, were published in 1876: a 650-page edition with 24 illustrations produced by Donnelly, Loyd and Company of Chicago; an abridged translation by Hawley Lee which had been serialized in AMERICAN HOMES was published by "Household Words" Publishing Company of Boston; and an abridged translation by Stephen W. White which had been published in THE EVENING TELEGRAPH was published in book form by the newspaper as a 25¢ paperback. The priority of these 1876 combined editions has not been established, but this Scribner, Armstrong edition is the more elaborate and least common of the four. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2234. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 767. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 19. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14634. Myers 42 ("a very rare edition!"). Taves and Michaluk V013. Cloth lightly worn at corner tips, a tight, clean, nearly fine copy. A bright, attractive, superior copy of this book. (#111184)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.