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Verne, Jules. The clipper of the clouds. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1914.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Verne, Jules. The clipper of the clouds. Author's copyright edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., s.d. [circa 1914]. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Red cloth, decorated in black to front and spine. Black lettering to front; gilt lettering to spine. Boards are slightly bumped to corners and top/base of spine; small dents to front opening edge. Small stain to front top. Binding firm. Light tanning to endpapers. School prize certificate from 1914 to ffep. Full colour frontispiece. 176pp., contents clean and bright. Robur the Conqueror is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as The Clipper of the Clouds. It has a sequel, Master of the World, which was published in 1904. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Description: [Adventure fiction] VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.176 [16]. Advertisements to rear. With numerous coloured halftone illustrations. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, titles and designs in brown and black to upper, titles and designs in gilt to spine. Green pictorial endpapers. Deckled edges. Gutter visible in a few places, binding still stable. Light foxing and thumbing throughout. Some leaves creased to lower corners. Scholastic prize bookplate to front paste-down. Some toning and spotting to textblock edges, rolling to spine. Minimal rubbing and wear to joints and extremities. Very good. A thrilling tale of round the world air travel under the the wing of Robur the master engineer, all the more remarkable for the fact that it was written a good fourteen years before the Wright brothers first got their ideas off the ground. First published in French in 1886. Deemed 'a new and cheaper edition' by the publisher.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Title page undated, published in 1914 this is the scarce First Edition of this Harry Collingwood Lost Race / World novel with Dinosaurs, man eating plants and other Prehistoric survivals, the book was later released with the shorter title “In Search of El Dorado”, it’s that edition that turns usually up, the first edition being very uncommon, bound in pictorial covers with illustrations to both upper cover and spine, internally illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates, Published by Sampson Low in 1914 in a similar format binding as Jules Verne’s Master of the World published in the same year, the covers have some edge rubbing wear, dulling to gilt on spine, internally endpapers and half title pages browned and foxed, a few foxing marks within, a couple of creased page corners else in good general condition
Seller: Andrew Cox PBFA, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$757.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth. The fifth book in Verne's Voyages extraordinaires series, a dark and foreboding tale. A little light foxing; minor rubbing to cloth, but overall very good.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$763.54 + shipping
Description: FIRST UK EDITION IN BOOK FORM (1914), 8vo, 205 x 140 mm, 8 x 5½ inches, 30 black and white plates by Georges Roux printed on coated paper, 317 pages, original publisher's dark green pictorial cloth, illustrated in colours to upper cover and spine, both showing the "Terrible", light blue lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine. A few very light small scratches to background of illustration on upper cover, 1 small one to background on spine, head and tail of spine and corners just a touch rubbed, gilt bright, page edges, prelims and last 3 leaves slightly foxed in margins, free endpapers lightly browned, no inscriptions. A very good plus bright clean tight copy. It was first published in France in 1904 and first issued in English in the U.S. in 1911. This copy is the first publication in the U.K. as a book, having previously appeared in 1913-1914 in the Boy's Own Paper. See Taves & Michaluk V054 page 185; Myers 37 page 46. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$820.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British Edition in green cloth with front panel stamped in gray, yellow, orange, light blue, dark blue and black, spine panel stamped in gray, yellow, orange, light blue, black and gold. Frontispiece and 29 additional full page plates. Taves & Michaluk V054; Myers 37. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company (n.d. 1914), 317 pages. Here is a well preserved sharp VG copy with wear to spine ends and tips, small bump to fore edge of rear board, some rubbing with a little loss to cover image, light foxing to fore edge. Toned free end pages, name on f.f.e. and name decal to front pastedown, scattered foxing to prelims.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1588.05 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1914. Gift inscription dated 1919 on front free end paper; end papers browned; some foxing, mainly on prelims & page fore-edge; binding tight; small area of loss to decoration on front board; spine a little bumped, with dull gilt. Used - Good. Good hardback in pictorial green cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. [Translated by Cranstoun Metcalf]. Octavo. 317 pages. Illustrations by Georges Roux. Striking pictorial cloth depicting a curious flying machine with bat-like wings. Robur the Conqueror seeks world domination. Faint stain to top edge which has bled down to the extremity of the upper margins of a few pages. Small puncture to fore-edge of text block. Outer edge of lower cover lightly affected by damp. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2823.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A scarce first UK edition of Jules Verne's dark science fiction novel. In good order, and a particularly clean copy -this work is notorious for heavy foxing due to the paper used. This is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne, and is a sequel to Robur the Conqueror. At the time Verne wrote the novel, his health was failing, and Master of the World is a "black novel," filled with the fear of the coming of tyrants like the novel's villain, Robur, and totalitarianism. With a colourfully illustrated front board and spine, showing the "Terror". With numerous illustrations by Georges Roux. In original pictorial cloth covered binding. Externally, sound with slight shelfwear and bumping to extremities. Slight straining to front hinge. Internally, generally firmly bound. Closed tear to gutter of one page. Generally bright with the odd spot and handling mark, mostly to first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Verne, Jules. THE MASTER OF THE WORLD: A TALE OF MYSTERY AND MARVEL. Sampson Low, London, 1914.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-317 [318, blank] [319, printer's imprint] [320, blank], 30 inserted illustrations, publisher's pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in gray, yellow, orange, light blue, dark blue and black, spine panel stamped in gray, yellow, orange, light blue, black and gold. First British edition. The return of Robur who first appeared in ROBUR LE CONQUERANT (1886). The translation of this British edition differs from the translation used for the first U.S. edition, published in 1911 as part of the fifteen volume WORKS OF JULES VERNE. According to Taves and Michaluk the British translation (by Cranstoun Metcalfe) is a "more faithful translation." The two novels featuring Robur were the basis for Richard Matheson's screenplay for MASTER OF THE WORLD, a 1961 film starring Vincent Price as the aerial anarchist. Taves and Michaluk V054. Top edge of text block dusty, some light rubbing to cloth at edges, a nearly fine copy. A sharp copy of a scarce book. (#136707)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.