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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, tan cloth with dark green rectangular ship embossed on cover, Translator's Note by Cranstoun Metcalfe, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), cover art repeated as full color frontispiece of elephant charging natives, green endpapers with nautical motifs, [xiv] + 272 pages (with publisher's green-staining along upper edges of pages intended to reduce normal discoloration). RARE in the dust jacket (which has only some minor chipping at its periphery). SUPERIOR COPY with a tight text block, clean pages, minor rubbing, small bookseller's tag on rear pastedown. This is the first part of Jules Verne"s, Seconde Patrie, or Second Fatherland (1900), which related "The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson." Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, published its companion, The Castaways of the Flag, in 1923. The complete American edition was published in two volumes by G. Howard Watt in 1924. This copy acknowledges Watt's copyright of 1924, hence our dating. Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, playwright, and world-recognized Grand Master of science fiction and adventure. His series Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels, included Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).--Wiki.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original purple cloth with affixed front cover illustration, with the rare dust jacket. Very good in a near very good jacket, with a few small closed tears, moderate soiling and very small chips at the head and tail of the spine. First American edition, fine and bright. The dust jacket reproduces the frontispiece that also appears on the book cover. The jacket is in very good condition, with minor wear at the corners, some rubbing, and early ownership initials (discreetly) on the front panel.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Jules Verne. Their Island Home. G. Howard Watt, New York, 1924.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Original maroon cloth with color illustration plate mounted to cover, spine and cover stamped green. Pictorial dust jacket. Book Condition: About Fine: A firm square copy with bright cover illustration plate, very faint tiny spots of foxing to top edge. / DJ Condition: Very Good: Dust rubbing and minor chips to dust jacket spine top edge, and two short closed tears, a quarter-inch pale dampstain to spine.n Original $1.75 price unclipped. Mylar cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. H. C. Murphy dustjacket art and frontis. A scarce 20th Century first edition of a Verne title, this one concerning The Swiss Family Robinson, and the visit of the unicorn. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end, few small chips at flap corners, some soiling to panels.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: hardback near very good condition in a somewhat worn dust jacket with red stain from dampness on the rear- The dampness has made one 2 cm. spot on the rear of the cloth and some stain to the rear end pages (5 to 6 cm along the sides)
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
VERNE, JULES. Their Island Home. G. Howard Watt, New York, 1924.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first US edition of this title. Hard to find now in any condition, let alone this fine condition. The dust jacket is extremely scarce. The book is in fine condition, very clean and bright. The edges of the dust jacket shows just some minor wear but overall remains very bright and attractive. Fine / Near Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson. Frontispiece by H. C. Murphy. New York: G. Howard Watt, 1924. Original burgundy cloth with affixed front cover color illustration, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published some 24 years after the original French edition.The book is NEAR FINE( some soiling to the top edge) in the SCARCE jacket, VERY GOOD PLUS!!!Very shallow tiny chips to spine ends with overall light soiling of the white portions of the jacket, slight darkening of the spine and one 1/4" closed tear at the top of the front panel. Price net $1.75 intact.VERY SCARCE in this condition!!** See our new cheaper postal rates to the USA and abroad.**
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. H. C. Murphy dustjacket art and frontis. The sequel to Verne's Their Island Home and arguably Verne's scarcest Watt published title to be found in original illustrated dustjacket. Very Good - Near Fine bright copy with some darkening and very light foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, mild scrapes to front panel, shallow chipping at top spine end, lower spine end with dime sized chip, partial splitting at rear spine edge mended at verso with archival tape.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.