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Verne, Jules. The Castaways of the Flag. G. Howard Watt, 1924.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Frontispiece illustration by H. C. Murphy. Maroon cloth with orange titling, illustration plate to front panel; clean and bright with rubbing and light shelf-wear. Spine square; hinges cracked, binding intact and else sound. Pages toned, with light soil to textblock edges. Text unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: G. Howard Watt, 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Original cloth. 242 pages. Fair or better.Rear hinge reinforced with tight binding; clean pages; a few small dogears; some wear and bumps; no jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, tan cloth with dark green rectangular ship embossed on cover, Translator's Note by Cranstoun Metcalfe, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), cover art repeated as full color frontispiece of elephant charging natives, green endpapers with nautical motifs, [xiv] + 272 pages (with publisher's green-staining along upper edges of pages intended to reduce normal discoloration). RARE in the dust jacket (which has only some minor chipping at its periphery). SUPERIOR COPY with a tight text block, clean pages, minor rubbing, small bookseller's tag on rear pastedown. This is the first part of Jules Verne"s, Seconde Patrie, or Second Fatherland (1900), which related "The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson." Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, published its companion, The Castaways of the Flag, in 1923. The complete American edition was published in two volumes by G. Howard Watt in 1924. This copy acknowledges Watt's copyright of 1924, hence our dating. Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, playwright, and world-recognized Grand Master of science fiction and adventure. His series Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels, included Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).--Wiki.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo; cloth covered boards with pictorial label paste-on; 242 pages; color frontispiece by H. C. Murphy; b&w photographic illustrations; a good, clean tight copy.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. H. C. Murphy dustjacket art and frontis. The sequel to Verne's Their Island Home and arguably Verne's scarcest Watt published title to be found in original illustrated dustjacket. Very Good - Near Fine bright copy with some darkening and very light foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, mild scrapes to front panel, shallow chipping at top spine end, lower spine end with dime sized chip, partial splitting at rear spine edge mended at verso with archival tape.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 242 pp. 8vo, publishers cloth with printed paper label, in dust jacket. First American edition. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper; else a fine copy in a bright, fresh jacket with some very slight soiling. A very uncommon book in dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.