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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.
Verne, Jules. Hector Servadac. Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York, 1878.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated by Ellen Frewer. With 'numerous illustrations', including frontis of 'The Crisis of Peril was close at hand'. Rebound in half leather with gilt titling. Some minor foxing and one page with some penciling. Very handsome copy of a very early ed 379 p. +ads
Seller: Blue Heron Books, Claremont, CA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules; Frewer, Ellen E.. Hector Servadac. [Off on a Comet]. Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878.
Price: US$381.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition. Tear along spine head, corners rubbed with some loss, hinges weak, one gathering sprung but holding. 1878 Hard Cover. x, [4], 370, [4] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt & black titles, gilt decorations including images of planets and hot air balloon. Translated from Verne's original French by Ellen E. Frewer, with 96 engraved illustrations. One of Verne's lesser-known works, Hector Servadac (also titled Off on a Comet in some translations) tells the story of a group of people living on a piece of land that has broken away from Earth after the comet Gallia collides with it. They observe strange discrepancies between the natural laws of Earth and those that apply to their surroundings, struggle among one another to establish power, and ultimately decide to work together to escape the comet. Originally published in French in 1877 as Les Voyages Extraordinaires: Hector Servadac Voyages et Aventures a Travers Le Monde Solaire, this American edition was printed in New York the following year.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. Hector Servadac. Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878.
Price: US$387.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair hardcover. No DJ. Translated by Ellen Frewer. 2 pages of additional publisher's advertisements. ORIGINAL 1878 PRINTING. First authorized American edition. Wonderfully Illustrated throughout. Text unmarked. All pages have a damp stain on bottom corner BUT DOES NOT GO INTO TEXT OR ILLUSTRATIONS. Covers (pictorial reddish brown boards and spine with gilt and black decoration/lettering) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Stain on bottom portion of front cover. Spine edge wear. Chipping on spine top edge. Hinges cracked and binding cracked and loosening. Previous owner's sticker on end paper. Book shows its age but still quite legible.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Jules Verne, translated by E.E. Frewer. HECTOR SERVADAC. scribner, Armstrong co, 1878.
Price: US$390.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1878 !st edition in original green and gilt decorated binding
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Jules Verne. Hector Servadac. Scribner , Armstrong and Co., New York, 1878.
Price: US$640.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First authorized American edition. May have been two earlier pirated editions.There is an 1 inch tear along the the side of the top of the spine. Also spine top and bottom is frayed, back hinges starting. Cover and spine are pictorial with brick boards with gilt and black, still most attractive. All illustrations are present.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Pictorial burgundy red cloth titled and elaborately illustrated in black & gilt on the front cover & the spine. The covers are rubbed with wear to the corners and head & tail of the spine. x, [iv], 370 & [2] pages, illustrated with a full-page frontispiece and 96 wood-engraved plates. A contemporary gift inscription dated 1878, is penned on the front blank. The endpapers and front & rear blanks are soiled and there is some slight soiling to the last couple of pages. Very good. First American edition. Although dated 1878, the book was actually published in November 1877, simultaneously with the English edition. Subtitled "Or the Career of a Comet" beneath the title on the spine.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
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.