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Verne, Jules. HECTOR SERVADAC . Translated by Ellen E. Frewer .. Scribner, New York, 1878.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [iii-v] vi [vii] viii-x [xi-xii] [1] 2-370 [371-372: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, 96 inserted plates with illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux, original pictorial red bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow coated endpapers. First complete U.S. edition. A translation (by Ellen E. Frewer) of HECTOR SERVADAC VOYAGES ET AVENTURES A TRAVERS LE MONDE SOLAIRE (1877). An interplanetary novel perhaps indebted to Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon." Earth collides with a comet and inhabitants of the Earth's surface from Gibraltar to Malta are carried into space on a fragment. This authorized edition was printed from the same plates as the British 1878 Sampson Low edition and both editions were published in November 1877. Two editions of the first part of HECTOR SERVADAC were published in America prior to Scribner, Armstrong's complete edition. The first American edition of part one of the novel was a piracy published by September 1877 in paper wrappers by George Munro as part of his "Seaside Library" series. Another unauthorized edition of part one, published by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger of Philadelphia as TO THE SUN? (dated 1878 but announced for sale 4 November 1877), also preceded this Scribner, Armstrong edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1181. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2235. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 8. Locke, Voyages in Space 202. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 20. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14628. Myers 33. Taves and Michaluk V016. Cloth quite worn and scuffed; the hinges are tight and the text is sound and clean. A candidate for restoration or rebinding, but quite serviceable as is. (#165264)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A good copy. Likely ex-library with pastedown plate having been removed. Brown cloth state/issue, no ads to the rear (second edition is denoted such, suggesting this to be the first). AEG. Some softening to the tips and corners. Hinges split showing webbing but still holding. Ink note to the endpaper. [10393, Hyraxia Books].
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
VERNE, JULES. Hector Servadac. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1878.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green boards embossed and decorated in black and gilt, 370pp. B&w illustrations, trans.Ellen E. Frewer. 2 previous owners' names to endpapers, dated respectively 1882, 1891. Small booksellers' label to rear endpaper. Externally, bumped, scuffed and a little frayed at ends of spine and board corners, with small 1cm split in spine covering at top of spine. Contents and list of illustrations pages detached from block but connected to each other, text block remains tight. First and last pages tanned but otherwise clean. A good tight copy otherwise.
Seller: Ripping Yarns, London, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. Hector Servadac Or The Life Of A Comet. Sampson Low, London, 1878.
Price: US$634.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st English edition. 97 illustrations including frontis with tissue guard. Translated from the French by Ellen E Frewer. Publishers pictorial red cloth, decorated gilt & black. All edges gilt. Spine professionally re-laid. Corners a touch of wear & tiny spot on rear board, but generally VG or better. No dustwrapper as issued. Scarce
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Price: US$801.67 + shipping
Description: First English edition. Collation, x[2]370pp, bound without catalogue. Bound in original publishers red gilt cloth, full gilt edges. This volume has been recased, with some restoration, bottom corners of boards very slightly bumped, cloth very slightly faded, some mine light staining. Binding in very good clean firm condition, hinge joints very strong. Internally, no loose pages, front fixed endpaper has a section pasted down in a slightly crude amateur way, same signature on free endpaper and top margin on title page, looks contemporay,some occasional light spotting, a few minor pencil annotaions. Pages and illustrations in very good condition. A very nice clean copy.A49 Size: 8vo
Seller: George Jeffery Books, HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. HECTOR SERVADAC . Translated by Ellen E. Frewer .. Scribner, New York, 1878.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [iii-v] vi [vii] viii-x [xi-xii] [1] 2-370 [371-372: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, 96 inserted plates with illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux, publisher's pictorial red bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow coated endpapers. First complete U.S. edition. A translation (by Ellen E. Frewer) of HECTOR SERVADAC VOYAGES ET AVENTURES A TRAVERS LE MONDE SOLAIRE (1877). An interplanetary novel perhaps indebted to Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon." Earth collides with a comet and inhabitants of the Earth's surface from Gibraltar to Malta are carried into space on a fragment. This authorized edition was printed from the same plates as the British 1878 Sampson Low edition and both editions were published in November 1877. Two editions of the first part of HECTOR SERVADAC were published in America prior to Scribner, Armstrong's complete edition. The first American edition of part one of the novel was a piracy published by September 1877 in paper wrappers by George Munro as part of his "Seaside Library" series. Another unauthorized edition of part one, published by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger of Philadelphia as TO THE SUN? (dated 1878 but announced for sale 4 November 1877), also preceded this Scribner, Armstrong edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1181. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2235. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 8. Locke, Voyages in Space 202. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 20. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14628. Myers 33. Taves and Michaluk V016. Cloth nicked and worn at the upper edge of the outer rear joint, light wear at lower spine end and lower corner tips, a bright, tight, internally clean, very good copy. (#173602)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. HECTOR SERVADAC. , 1878.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Description: Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. With Numerous Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and black, beveled. First complete American hardbound edition -- also the first authorized American edition. A collision with the errant comet "Gallia" rips out a section of the Earth that includes Gibraltar and the north coast of Algeria, carrying off various unintentional "colonists" (including French Captain Hector Servadac and his orderly Ben Zoof) into space on a two-year orbit of our solar system; they are forced to take refuge in a volcano to survive the cold stretch farthest from the sun. This tale was first published in America (and in the English language) by the pirate-publisher George Munro in his wrappered "Seaside Library" in September 1877. A month later the Philadelphia firm of Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger issued the first half of this tale in a pirated cloth-bound volume titled TO THE SUN? Then in November 1877 (though dated 1878) were published the authorized Sampson Low edition in England, and this authorized Scribner Armstrong edition -- both of the entire tale, both with the Ellen Frewer translation. (It was not until May 1878 that CR&H published the second half of their Philadelphia edition, OFF ON A COMET!.) This is a magnificent volume, produced at the apex of American book design, with an elaborately decorated binding and with over 100 full-page illustrations, originally priced at a hefty $3.00. This copy is in red cloth (we have also had terra-cotta and green -- no priority). It is a handsome copy, with the binding unusually bright -- in near-fine condition (just a touch of wear at the extremities). Taves & Michaluk V016; Myers 33.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. HECTOR SERVADAC . Translated by Ellen E. Frewer .. Scribner, New York, 1878.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [iii-v] vi [vii] viii-x [xi-xii] [1] 2-370 [371-372: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, 96 inserted plates with illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux, publisher's pictorial red bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow coated endpapers. First complete U.S. edition. This authorized edition was printed from the same plates as the British 1878 Sampson Low edition and both editions were published in November 1877. Two editions of the first part of HECTOR SERVADAC were published in America prior to Scribner, Armstrong's complete edition. The first American edition of part one of the novel was a piracy published by September 1877 in paper wrappers by George Munro as part of his "Seaside Library" series. Another unauthorized edition of part one, published by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger of Philadelphia as TO THE SUN? (dated 1878 but announced for sale 4 November 1877), also preceded the Scribner, Armstrong edition. Translation of HECTOR SERVADAC VOYAGES ET AVENTURES A TRAVERS LE MONDE SOLAIRE (1877). Earth collides with a comet and inhabitants of the earth's surface from Gibraltar to Malta are carried into space on a fragment. This interplanetary novel is perhaps indebted to Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1181. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2235. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 8. Locke, Voyages in Space 202. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 20. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14628. Myers 33. Taves and Michaluk V016. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and lower corner tips, a nearly fine copy with bright cover stamping. A tight, lovely copy and scarce thus.(#165264).
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.