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Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half leather with brown cloth. 912 pp. With a few illustrations. Bound volume of this monthly magazine. Includes an apparent condensed version of Part III of "The Mysterious Island," by Jules Verne; an account, with illustrations, of the discovery of King Solomon's Temple; poetry by Celia Thaxter, etc. GOOD+ condition. General fading. Minor to heavy scuffing along the leather extremities, spine and hinges. Paper toned.
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine, brown with gold print, raised bands, titled "Scribner's Monthly, Vol. XI"; Boards quarter bound with dark brown leather to spine and corners, light brown leather to boards, worn, exposed corners and spine caps, scuffing to leather spine and corners, shelfwear to leather boards; Text block has marbled endpapers, cracked hinges front and rear, name in pencil on front endpapers and title page, mild age-toning to paper; Includes the entirety of vol. XI of Scribner's Monthly, from Nov. 1875 to April 1876; Condensed version of chapter 3 from "The Mysterious Island" found in issues for March (pages 703-712) and April (pages 866-871); iv, 912 pages, illustrated (b&w). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #1. 1322177. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Scribner's, 1876 [March and April issues]. Engravings. Octavo, illustrated wraps. Both issues darkened, somewhat soiled, chipped at perimeter and with deteriorating spines; still, strongly bound. Good plus. Not the bound format, but the original issues in wraps of a two-month installment of the third and concluding part of Verne's Mysterious Island: The Secret of the Island. A highly- condensed [16 pp., four engravings between the two issues] version not listed in Taves & Michaluk. Interesting and scarce, for the completion collector. L-pr1
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$212.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second volume (only) of Verne's three-decker novel "The Mysterious Island," concerning five escaped Civil War prisoners marooned on an uninhabited island in 1865 when a mighty storm blows their hot-air balloon far into the Pacific. Second American printing of what is, in effect, the sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Looks pretty much identical to the 1875 Scribner-Armstrong American first, save that this copy is dated 1876 to the tile page, stead of 1875. Brick-red cloth, ornately stamped in black and gilt to spine and front board, the gilt rubbed and darkened in a few small areas, but overall remains pleasingly bright. Boards display beveled edges. Some rub to cloth at head and heel of spine, and the board corners have begun to rub through -- this copy still "very good." Tightly bound, hinges have not called for any repair. Of the 50 illustrations called for, the one itemized at page 238 has been transposed to appear as the frontispiece, as always, and one is missing, that being "Flotsam and Jetsam," called for at page 22, which is also missing from our first edition. As we can spot no sign that said plate has been removed from either copy, we conclude it was never included, and that its absence is "as made." Unfortunately, the translation here is by children's author W. H. G. Kingston, who not only changes the hero's name from Smith to Harding, but then proceeds to omit many of the technical passages explaining the castaways' scientific development of the island. Verne's anti-imperialist sentiments, as expressed by the dying Captain Nemo, were also either omitted or reversed by Kingston, apparently so as not to offend English readers. The 1961 Charles Schneer film -- a showcase for Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion, giant-animal special effects, featured Michael Craig, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, and Herbert Lom as Captain Nemo. A 2005 remake featured Kyle MacLachlan, Gabriel Anwar, and Patrick Stewart. Around 2010-2012 a Canadian made-for-TV version mixing in some time travel (Gina Holden, Lochlyn Munro, Susie Abromeit) seems to have left its few viewers scratching their heads in puzzlement. 304 pp., followed by 6 pp. publisher's ads. Here reduced from $765.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Illus., 7.5 x 5", gilt-dec and gilt-lettered brown cloth, 304pp + ads, covers heavily, heavily, heavily worn, spine cocked, extremities bumped and chipped, front inner hinge cracked, soiling to endpapers, old ink stamp and address label from former owner, contents loose, worn, toned and heavily finger-soiled, missing one plate ("Flotsam and Jetsam" as usual) but still the Second Printing (1876) of the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated by W.H.G. Kingston. New York. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. 1876. Hardcover, 310 pages + 1 sheet with ads on both sides. 1 pages of ads at the front for other Verne works. Bound in brown cloth with fancy gold and black decorations and lettering on the cover and spine. On the inside front cover, remains of a small bookstore stamp. Pages uniformly toned with age, but no foxing, markings, or stains. This copy is in very good condition. Binding good and tight, with only very minor bumps to corners. Illustrated throughout. A very rare edition. This is the first volume in Verne's Mysterious Island trilogy. [stored in the safe]
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated by W.H.G. Kingston. New York. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. 1876. Hardcover, 304 pages + 6 pages of ads. 1 pages of ads at the front for other Verne works. Bound in green cloth with fancy gold and black decorations and lettering on the cover and spine. On the inside front cover, the very faint remains of a small bookstore stamp. Pages uniformly toned with age, but no foxing, markings, or stains. This copy is in very good condition. Binding good and tight, with only very minor bumps to corners. Illustrated throughout. A very rare edition. This is the 2nd volume in Verne's Mysterious Island trilogy. [Stored in the safe]
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of the final installment in Verne's Mysterious Island Trilogy. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. In near fine condition. An exceptionally bright example. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds, The Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film, television, and radio broadcast.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-ii] [i-iii] iv-vi [vii] viii [1] 2-299 [300: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, illustrations by J. Ferat, publisher's pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First U.S. edition, first printing. A Robinsonade intended by Verne to be a sequel to TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS (1870) and IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS (1867-1868). In THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND Captain Nemo dies of old age and is entombed in the Nautilus. In September 1875 Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle published THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in three volumes subtitled DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, ABANDONED and THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND. In November 1875 Scribner, Armstrong brought out their uniform three-volume edition which was printed in Boston using Sampson Low plates. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2234. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 767. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 19. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14634. Myers 42. Taves and Michaluk V013. 1878 gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Just a hint of rubbing at head and tail of spine panel and corners, a fine, bright copy. A lovely copy of an uncommon book. (#173605)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Green cloth cover with black and gilt embossment is frayed at corners and spine caps with light wear to extremities and modest loss to the spine gilding but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Boards are straight. Spine is slightly cocked. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned with light signs of handling but overall clean and very good. Illustrated in b&w.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. The Mysterious Island. Scribner and Armstrong, New York, 1876.
Price: US$3840.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very nice copy of this compilation of the three books - Dropped from the Clouds-Abandoned-Secret of the Islands which comprise Mysterious Island. Blue cloth with gilt and black pictorial cover and spine.Thick Ocyavo - pgs.310.304, and 299 with 4 pages of ads. Nice copy , square clean and tight. One problem the illustration facing page 22 in the second book (Abandoned) is missing. The many other illudstrations are present.
Seller: Culpepper Books, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
JULES VERNE. THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO, 1876.
Price: US$4995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First printing First Edition, First printing of the first combined edition of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND TRILOGY, which is the compilation of the 3 books, DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, ABANDONED, AND THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND by Jules Verne. Published in 1876 by Scribner, Armstrong & Co. New York. Please see image of the title page. First fully illustrated American edition. A very stunning book, grand in size, and in the uncommon handsome blue cloth. The book is in beautiful condition with blue cloth boards with a detailed gilt embossed scene to the front and spine. The book has no edgewear, and the binding is tight and square. The original end papers are present with No owner names, No inscriptions and No bookplates. The internal pages are intact and tightly bound, being overall very clean for a Verne book with scant few random pages with a faded handling mark, otherwise no writing and no foxing. Please see many detailed images. This is a very thick book of 299 pages plus a small publisher’s catalogue at the end. A very handsome unrestored example of this title in collectible condition in stunning blue cloth and withOUT the excessive staining or excessive wear and broken bindings as is typically found with Verne books. Important scarce Verne book, presenting well on the shelf. Would make a wonderful gift for a Verne collector. Please note this is a very heavy thick book so shipping is priced accordingly. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi first printings.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-x [xi] xii-xiv [xv] xvi-xviii [xix] xx [xxi] xxii [xxii] xxiv [1-2] [1] 2-310 [1-2] [1] 2-304 [1-2] [1] 2-299 [300: blank] [301-304: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, 149 full page illustrations by J. Ferat (integral to text leaves, not inserted plates, but not reckoned in the pagination), publisher's pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, yellow endpapers. First combined edition, first printing. An authorized edition of DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, the first part of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, was first published in book form in the Fall of 1874 by Scribner, Armstrong as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND . WRECKED IN THE AIR to compete with a pirated edition published at or about the same time by Henry L. Shepard as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. PART FIRST, SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR. In September 1875 Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle published THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in three volumes subtitled DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS, ABANDONED and THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND. In November 1875 Scribner, Armstrong brought out their uniform three-volume edition which was printed in Boston using Sampson Low plates. Sometime before 31 March 1876 Scribner, Armstrong published their combined edition which sold for $3.00, half the cost of the three-volume set. Three other combined editions of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, all unauthorized, were published in 1876: a 650-page edition with 24 illustrations produced by Donnelly, Loyd and Company of Chicago; an abridged translation by Hawley Lee which had been serialized in AMERICAN HOMES was published by "Household Words" Publishing Company of Boston; and an abridged translation by Stephen W. White which had been published in THE EVENING TELEGRAPH was published in book form by the newspaper as a 25¢ paperback. The priority of these 1876 combined editions has not been established, but this Scribner, Armstrong edition is the more elaborate and least common of the four. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2234. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 767. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 19. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14634. Myers 42 ("a very rare edition!"). Taves and Michaluk V013. Cloth lightly worn at corner tips, a tight, clean, nearly fine copy. A bright, attractive, superior copy of this book. (#111184)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.