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Price: US$1300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British less expensive edition in red half leather and gilt titled spine, 7/6 stamped in blind on the back cover. Tissue guarded frontispiece, title page vignette and numerous interiors. Contains both parts; Burbank the Northener (173 pages) and Texar the Southerner (154 pages). Taves & Michaluk V033; Myers 49. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington (1888), 173 and 154 pages. A very good copy sun faded spine and rear cover. Modest soil and wear. Toning endpapers and darkened top edge.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. NORTH AGAINST SOUTH. A Tale of the American Civil War. , 1888.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Description: With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and red, all page edges gilt. First British Edition of this adventure tale taking place during the American Civil War. This is the tale of the antagonism between Burbank (an anti-slavery Northerner now living near Jacksonville, Florida) and Texar (a pro-slavery Southerner); Texar winds up kidnapping Burbank's daughter and hiding her in the Everglades, and Burbank heads off in search of his daughter -- all as the Civil War rages around them. NORD CONTRE SUD came out in France in 1887, and by the end of the summer of that year the American pirate publisher George Munro came out with TEXAR'S VENGEANCE in his wrappered Seaside Library. In November 1887, Rand McNally published a hardbound American edition (a different translation) titled TEXAR'S REVENGE. Then this British edition, hardbound and illustrated and the same translation as Rand McNally's, came out in December 1887 (though dated 1888). These were soon followed by Worthington's (New York) 1888 edition of TEXAR'S REVENGE. The book did not get good reviews in America: the New York Daily Tribune wrote, [In Jules Verne's] story of "Texar". a very thin streak of narrative is padded to almost unwieldy proportions by a quantity of remarkably inaccurate information about the rebellion. If anyone thought the game worth the candle it would be easy to point out the various comical inaccuracies in the historical part of the story. [quoted in T&M] This copy is in the deluxe binding style, with all edges gilt; its condition is very good -- spine a bit sunned as always, volume slightly askew. This is a Verne title that we seldom see. Taves & Michaluk V033.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. North Against South. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1888.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very scarce UK first edition of this novel set during the American Civil War. The first French edition, under the title Nord contre Sud, appeared in Autumn 1887. This UK edition, with the same copious illustrations as the French volume, came out for Christmas 1887 but was post-dated 1888. Unusually the publishers paginated the book in two parts, 1-173 and 1-154 (plus 64 tipped in plates), knowing that they would subsequently issue in the book in 2 volumes. There was just one printing of the book under this title as the subsequent printings used the sub-titles Burbank the Northerner and Texar the Southerner. The Myers' bibliographies are singularly uninformative about this book (their No. 49), erroneously noting that it appeared in pictorial wraps. Grey cloth lettered in gilt and illustrated in black and red. All edges gilt, modern replacement pale yellow endpapers. Boards very slightly warped and minor soiling to front cover but overall an attractive and internally very clean copy.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Jules Verne. North Against South. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1888.
Price: US$2880.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Good copy withh corner bumped and spine faded. Still very attractive with a pictorial cover and spine. Green cloth with gilt lettering and picture in black and red, All edges gilt and all illustrations present.A Novel of the American Civil War.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.