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Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xiv, 440 p. 21 cm. Some 250 illustrations, including 77 full page. Green cloth with black and gold impressing. Amusing front cover illustration features the "dog-captain" steering the ship while two sailors gaze on in amazement. Small figures explore Arctic ice on spine. Mylar wrap removed for photos. Small tears in spine ends, some shelf wear to edges. Front hinge repaired. Dampstains to margins of first pages. Ink inscription on a front leaf. Pages 45-47 loosening with roughened edges. Plate across from p. 152, as well as pp. 153-162, loosening. Verne's classic polar adventure with two parts, originally published separately, in one volume: The English at the North Pole; The Desert of Ice. Taves & Michaluk V004. Myers 58.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$1130.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in brick-coloured pictorial cloth with black and gilt decorations to front board and spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Some shelfwear to outer corners and to head and heel of spine. Spine somewhat darkened. Lower page edges show minute trace of damp staining, darkening to tail edge at spine. Also minor damp staining to upper outside corners of prelims and endpages. Damp stains do not affect text. Faint foxing to first and last few pages. Previous ownership inscription to front blank.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2373.11 + shipping
Description: [Adventure novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 440; [2], blank. With two hundred and fifty illustrations by Riou. Publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth hardcovers, coated brown endpapers. Contents fine, page edges a little toned, cloth a trifle shelfworn. A lovely fine, bright copy. Verne's classic polar adventure, this volume comprises the complete text, previously published as part one, "The English at the North Pole" and part two "The Desert of Ice"
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom