Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Verne, jules (virginia champlin). THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. lee & shepard, 1880.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: very good brown binding, name stamp on ep,
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$166.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original blue cloth boards, gilt decoration to spine, pp 271 plus 9 pp publisher's catalogue. Published Boston: Lee & Shepard/New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1879, dated 1880. Original blue cloth has been professionally relaid over boards. Some fading to cloth, occasional small mark internally o/w clean, good condition. The first US edition, also the first edition in English, of an unusual Jules Verne novel set in China.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edgewear & some rubbing; scratches; some discolroation/staining on cover; cracked hinge; yellowing; text overall clean & sound. 271 pages. First American Edition
Seller: The Book Junction, Shippensburg, PA, U.S.A.
Verne, Jules. THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. Lee & Shepard / Dillingham, 1880.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA, Lee & Shepard / Dillingham, 1880, first American edition, some staining and soiling to gray/blue cloth covers, some wear to the extremities, one cm by half cm piece of cloth missing at the outer front hinge, else a good copy with vg+ contents. A most uncommon book whose flaws may be negated if one chooses to rebind.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Tribulations of a Chinaman. Lee & Shepard, Publishers, New York, 1880.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 271 p. Translated from the French by Virginia Champlin. Green cloth binding with gold label on spine. Clean, tight copy. Spine is slightly cocked and there is some minor wear to the ends of spine and corners.
Seller: Steven Edwards, Coalmont, TN, U.S.A.
VERNE, Jules. The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1880.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in terra cotta cloth, stamped in black and gold. Previous owner's neat name to ffep. (from the Bailey estate of Luden Cough Drop fame). Some moderate dampstaining to spine, scuffing to spine ends. 271pp. and 9 pp. of ads. Overall, a very acceptable copy of the first U.S. edition (and first edition in English) of this Verne comic novel of one Kin-Fo. . 9 pp undated ads. Ref.: Myers 55.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$443.94 + shipping
Description: First US edition (first edition in English), octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration to spine, black rule to front board & spine, black lettering to front board, vi +271pp +9pp ads, VG- (some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards & spine, v slight foxing to eps & page edges, light tanning to page edges, rear internal hinge cracked but sound)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Verne, Jules. THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. Lee & Shepard / Dillingham, 1880.
Price: US$580.00 + shipping
Description: THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA, Lee & Shepard / Dillingham, 1880, first American edition, slight wear to the spine extremities and the fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original gray cloth with gold-gilt spine decoration and black lettering and rules.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1880.
Price: US$720.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition and first hardback edition in English. Deep blue cloth ruled and titled in black on cover, gilt and black stamped spine, pale yellow endpapers. Translated from the French by Virginia Champlin. Unillustrated. Nine pages of ads at rear. Taves & Michaluk V020; Myers 55. Boston: Lee and Shepard (1880), 271 pages. VG copy with slightly darkened spine, some spots of soiling, spine ends and tips starting to fray. Clean unmarked interior.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.