Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. George Smith, Boston, 1874.

Price: US$945.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Geo. M. Smith Co., Boston, 1874. 2nd issue. Original gilt green pictorial Cloth. Condition: Very Good. du Neuville, Alphonse Marie;Riou, Edouard (illustrator). First Edition. Boston: Geo. M. Smith, 1873. First Smith edition, first edition 2nd issue "THE END" on page 303, "Sold only by subscription, edition of James R. Osgood & Co." on title page. 8vo. 303 pp. Green cloth binding with decorative black and gold designs and titles, all edges gilt (a scarce feature of this edition). The first edition, first printing of a very early reprint, taken from the Osgood plates (first American edition). The book has been carefully professionally restored by Virginia Meredith Chicago Illinois, a fine binder for the Newberry Library other wise a very good bright copy, comes with an extra hand water colored engraving of Captain Nemo laid in.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.