VERNE Jules. The Child of the Cavern; or Strange Doings Underground. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1877, 1877.

Price: US$358.64 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: translated by W H G Kingston, contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, decorated in gilt, leather label, illustrated, scattered spotting, shelf-wear, a nice copy. from the library of Wm Webb Hayward with his armorial bookplate front pastedown; first edition; 246 pages

Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Verne, Jules ; Kingston, W. H. G. [trans.]. The Child of the Cavern; or, Strange Doings Underground. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1877, London, 1877.

Price: US$1216.82 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First English Edition. viii, 246 pp. Original decorative green cloth with gilt lettering (not the brown noted in Myers); all edges gilt. Wear to spine ends and corners, and light marks to boards. Stamp stating the book was a gift from the Red Cross to front pastedown. Occasional minor spots. Occasional minor splits to binding, but all together. Frontispiece and 43 wood engraved plate illustrations by Jules Ferat throughout. This appeared originally as 'Les Indes Noire' and under the title 'The Underground City' the following year in the US. Myers 10. The novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland, with 'strange doings' happening underground in the vein of other Verne classics like 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'. 8vo.

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Jules Verne. The Child of the Cavern or Strange Doings Underground. Sampson Low, Marsten, Searle, & Riverton, London, 1877.

Price: US$1760.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Brown cloth with black pictorial cover and spine, gilt lettering. Nice attractive copy.

Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.

Verne, Jules. The Child of the Cavern or Strange Doings Underground. Sampson Low, Marsten, Searle, & Riverton, London, 1877.

Price: US$2049.38 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Full leather in brown with black labels, marbled endpapers, original covers and endpapers replaced. Minor wrinkles to pages and minor age wear internally. We have recently acquired quite a number of antiquarian and early 20th century illustrated books and limited editions. We are in the process of collating and listing. Please inquire, many more interesting titles are available. Please bear with us should you find our website under construction or certain entries in progress. Photographs or scans can be provided via email upon request. Please do contact us, we will do our best to help. We regularly attend antiquarian book fairs and exhibitions, please do contact us, if we are in your area, we will be glad to arrange a viewing of any special or valuable title. Thank you for your custom, we look forward to hearing from you.

Seller: Garland Books, Dundee, UK, United Kingdom