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Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Description: Author's Copyright Edition, as stated on the titlepage. Publisher's pictorial binding, chipped at ends of the spine, which is also lightly sunned. pp 192 + 198; twelve plates including the frontispiece, which is lightly foxed. Scattered foxing to endpapers and early pages also. Titlepage a touch embrowned. Bookseller's label of George Philip, Fleet Street, laid in at the foot of the front pastedown. Paired with The Archipelago on Fire. This is a rare pairing, apparently not see by the Jules Verne Encyclopedia, nor Myers (M52) or Galagher's (A60) bibliographies, with no copies cited in the JISC holdings or BL: In February 1919, Sampson Low published two works bound in one volume entitled The Lottery Ticket; and the Begum's Fortune, crown 8vo., priced at 2s6d. Also, about the same time Sampson Low published The Lottery Ticket; and Other Stories, which contained the title story and The Flight to France. [Jules Verne Encyclopedia] The JVE also cites a copy paired with The Vanished Diamond. But a copy paired with The Archipelago on Fire it does not reference.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$768.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U. K. edition, 1880. The publishers catalogue at the end of the book is dated October, 1879. Plates throughout. All edges gilt. Some very light foxing in places. Publishers gilt and black decorated green cloth is very slightly darkened, some very light rubbing to the edges and a very small mark to rear cover. Generally a very good solid copy. The book is collated complete. Unusually good copy and scarce as such. 272 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom