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(Literature) VERNE, Jules. In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of The Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue. J.B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, 1873.

Price: US$1100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 6 X 9 Inches. 620 PP + 4 PP ads. First American printing (first edition printed in English) in original publisher green cloth binding. Illustrated with over 170 illustrations. Verne's fifth book. Cloth a bit frayed at hinges, with rear hinge starting. Light toning and wear to page edges. Some scuffing and wear to original cloth. Binding a bit shaken as is common with this heavy book. Sounds much worse than it appears.

Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.

Jules Verne. A Voyage Round the World in Search of the Castaways. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1873.

Price: US$1400.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A Voyage Round the World. A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of his Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. First American edition in original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated and titled in gilt and black, decoratively stamped in blind on rear, beveled edges, brown endpapers. "illustrated with One Hundred and Seventy engravings". Four pages of ads at rear. Taves & Michaluk V005; Myers 34. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott (1873), 620 pages. This Good copy has edge wear and some rubbing; cloth fraying at spine ends, tips and fore edges. Somewhat shaken with cracked hinges.

Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.

Verne, Jules Gabriel (1828-1905). A Voyage Round the World In Search of he Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of the Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. J B Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1873.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: [2 blanks]+620+[4, ads]+[2, blank] pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's full brick cloth, spine and front stamped in gilt and black; all edges trimmed and gilt. (Taves &Michaluk V005) First American edition (and first edition in English). This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. It is one of the few of Verne's works that Sampson Low never published in England. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately, either as Voyage Round the World, or as The Mysterious Document/On the Track and Among the Cannibals. This rare copy with all page edges gilt, one of very few known of. In fact there were very few American editions of any Verne title that was available with all edges gilt. Condition: Rear hinge beginning but still sound; couple of previous owner signatures and one label to front flyleaf; faint, marginal spot- and thumb-soiling scattered throughout else a near fine copy.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

VERNE, Jules; RIOU, Edward (illus.). A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1873.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 620, [4] p. 23 cm. Half title and title vignettes. 137 full-page plates and numerous in-text illustrations, numbering over 170 altogether. Brown cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracking internally. Ink signature on a front endpaper. Stains to bottom margins pp. 158-9 affecting a couple of leaves in both directions. Some light stains and thumbing elsewhere. Tear in margin of p. 399. Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as "Les Enfants du Captain Grant." One of the few Verne works that Sampson Low never published in Britain. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately. Taves & Micheluk V005. Myers 34. First US Edition and first edition in English.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada