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Price: US$590.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: translated by W J Gordon, original pictorial cloth, recased with spine supported, lavishly illustrated, publishers catalogue dated January 1881, all edges gilt, ownership signature front free endpaper, good. first edition; 244 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-244 [245-260: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, 43 inserted plates with illustrations by L. Benett, inserted folding map, publisher's pictorial brown bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First U.S. hardcover edition. The first part of THE GIANT RAFT. A translation (by W. J. Gordon) of LA JANGADA: HUIT CENTS LIEUES SUR L'AMAZONE (1881), an adventure novel narrating an 800-league voyage down the Amazon River on a giant raft 1000 feet long and 60 feet wide comprising a floating village and a crew of eighty. The Scribner edition utilized the plates of the 1881 Sampson Low edition. Myers 28. Taves and Michaluk V022. Just a hint of rubbing at head and tail of spine panel and corners, a fine, bright copy. (#173604)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. The Giant Raft (2 volume set). Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, Parts I and II. First English edition. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards; gilt titles, 5 raised bands; all edges gilt. The edges are lightly rubbed and there is some spotting to the spines (especially to volume II). There is light toning to the pages and it appears that one illustration in each volume had been loose and then reinserted because, even though now secure, the edges protrude slightly.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.