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‎Verne Jules‎

‎P'TIT BONHOMME‎

‎1893. 85 Illustrations par L. Benett. 12 Grandes Gravures en Chromotypographie. 1 Carte en couleurs. Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie. n.d. 1893. 8 pp ads dated 1893-1894. Original red cloth decorated in many colors all edges gilt.<br/><br/> First Illustrated Edition of the tale translated into English as FOUNDLING MICK published by Sampson Low of London in 1895. Although the tale continued to be published in the U.K. and in Ireland as A LAD OF GRIT the tale was never published in America. This is the appropriate earliest binding for this title the cartonnage "au portrait collé" and this copy has the appropriate earliest ad catalogue dated 1893-1894. This is a remarkably bright copy fine except for very slight fading of the red spine and for a bit of foxing on a few leaves within. A rather scarce title. Bottin pp 319-320; Gondolo della Riva 56C. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 9297

‎VERNE Jules‎

‎Reise Durch die Sonnenwelt Off on a Comet‎

‎Vienna:: Buchergilde Gutenberg. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Text is in German. First edition thus. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper else very good in a very good chipped at the crown of the spine minor edge wear and age toning dust jacket.; 319 pages . Buchergilde Gutenberg, hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 77481

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE ADVENTURES OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA From the French of Jules Verne by Virginia Champlin .‎

‎Boston: Lee and Shepard 1889. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi 1-271 272: blank 273-280: ads flyleaves at front and rear 50 illustrations by Leon Benett original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in white black and gold cream endpapers. Second U.S. illustrated edition. The first edition in English was an unauthorized edition published by Lee and Shepard and Dillingham in October 1879 with a title page dated 1880 as THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. It was quickly followed by an 1879 cheap pirated paperbound edition published in George Munro's "Seaside Library." An illustrated British edition was published by Sampson Low in 1880 and an authorized illustrated American edition was published by E. P. Dutton the same year although the latter has a title page dated 1881. This 1889 Lee and Shepard and Dillingham edition is a reissue of their 1879 edition with with the illustrations by Benett that first appeared in the Sampson Low and Dutton editions. Translation of LES TRIBULATIONS D'UN CHINOIS EN CHINE 1879. A farce set in China concerning a Chinese who plans his own assassination and then changes his mind. Minor science fiction element is escape to sea using watertight buoyant suits. Myers 55. Taves and Michaluk V020. A fine bright copy. #164628 Lee and Shepard unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 164628

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Castle of the Carpathians.‎

‎London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Rare first edition of Verne's Gothic mystery novel that likely inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. Octavo original illustrated cloth gilt titles to the spine and front panel top edge gilt pictorial endpapers engraved frontispiece illustrated with numerous engravings. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Verne's The Castle of the Carpathians centres on the story of Count Franz de Telek a visitor to the village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania who is inspired to visit the region after hearing that the town's villagers believe that the devil has come to inhabit its castle. The novel was likely the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Gothic horror novel Dracula published five years later in 1897 and featuring the character of Count Dracula also of Transylvania. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 95153

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE CHASE OF THE GOLDEN METEOR‎

‎1909. Illustrated. London: Grant Richards 1909. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in ochre yellow and light blue. First British Edition and first edition in the English language. This is a tale of a meteor's close brush with Earth with the main events taking place in Virginia. The story had first appeared in a French daily journal in March-April 1908 -- three years after Verne's death. Despite the date 1909 on the title verso this book was actually published in November 1908. Though sited in America the book was not published in the United States. This is a handsome volume with one of the 24 Roux plates reproduced upon the decorative front cover. This copy is near-fine contemporary school prize label on the front paste-down light foxing throughout on this thick wove paper rear endpaper cracked. Taves & Michaluk V060; Myers 9. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 13655

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE CHILD OF THE CAVERN; or Strange Doings Underground‎

‎1877. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1877. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt all edges gilt. First British Edition of the tale also known as THE BLACK INDIES and as UNDER­GROUND CITY. The unusual tale takes place deep in a Scottish mine in which a mysterious "goblin" appears to live. The peculiar wildness of Jules Verne's imagination shows with startling effect when he selects Scotland and its sober-minded people as scene and characters for his latest characteristic extravaganza. He describes a mine of fabulous wonders by and of superhuman powers and then he has a plot that would furnish plots for several exciting novels. from an early promotional piece cited in T&M The pirate publisher George Munro was the first to get out an edition THE BLACK INDIES in English in his triple-columned self-wrappered "Seaside Library" in the Spring of 1877. This first British edition came out in October of that year: "Pictured on the front cover is Jack Ryan kneeling on the twenty-sixth landing down the gloomy shaft. Harfang the bird owl is also shown on the front cover and spine" T&M. This copy is in red cloth; we have also had green and brown no priority. It is an unusually clean bright copy in near-fine condition a discreet repair at the head of the spine rear endpaper cracked. Taves & Michaluk V017; Myers 10. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 10585

‎VERNE JULES‎

‎The exploration of the world running head. The great navigators of the eighteenth century. Translated from the French‎

‎New York: Scribner's Sons 1887. 8vo pp. xvi 409; 19 maps and 96 wood-engraved plates; very good bright copy in orig. red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Issued in the Exploration of the World series. First published in English in 1880. Other titles in the series included Famous Travels and Travellers and The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century. <br/><br/> Scribner's Sons hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 16267

‎VERNE Jules‎

‎The Floating Island‎

‎London Sampson Low Marston & Company Limited 1897. 1897. "New and cheaper edition" so stated on title page. 8vo. Illustrated title page and 33 full page plates. 382 pages. Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt tan blue and black with scene on cover and spine. Bright copy very good No signatures or bookplates. Myers 23. Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited [1897?]. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 223292

‎VERNE JULES‎

‎The Fur Country. Or Seventy Degrees North Latitude‎

‎Boston: James R. Osgood 1874. First Edition - American. Ownership inscription dated December 25 1874. Slight fading to spine rear hinge slightly starting else very good in original salmon colored gilt-stamped cloth. Illustrated with engravings. James R. Osgood hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 13349J

‎VERNE Jules‎

‎The Green Ray‎

‎London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. The Scarcest of All Verne First Editions<br/><br/>VERNE Jules. The Green Ray. Translated From the French by Mary de Hautville. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. <br/><br/>First British edition and First edition in English the five shillings issue with plain edges with 32 page publisher's catalogue September 1883 at rear. Octavo 7 x 4 3/4 in; 178 x 121 mm. viii 312 32 publisher's catalog pp. Frontispiece title vignette and forty-three black and white plates included in pagination by L. Benett reprinted from the first French edition. One map. <br/><br/>Publishers ochre cloth front cover pictorially decorated in red and black title lettered in gilt rear cover decoratively bordered in blind spine pictorially decorated in red and black and lettered in gilt blue-gray floral endpapers. The mildest of rubbing to the extremities internally immaculate a near fine and untouched copy.<br/><br/>The scarcest of all Verne first editions. Only two copies have come to auction within the last thirty-six years one rebound the other "becoming loose."<br/><br/>Published in September 1883 a month before George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition.<br/><br/>The Green Ray was something of a departure for Verne a love story set in Scotland wherein a girl refuses to marry the man her uncles have chosen for her unless she sees the mysterious "green ray" which would tell her it is true love. After numerous failed attempts the phenomenon eventually becomes visible but the couple gazing into each other's eyes miss it. Green flashes or rays are actual optical phenomena that occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise when a green spot is visible for a short period of time above the sun or a green ray shoots up from the sunset point. It is usually observed from a low altitude where there is an unobstructed view of the horizon such as on the ocean. <br/><br/>Taves & Michaluk V023. Myers 31. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 04577

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Lighthouse at the End of the World‎

‎New York: G. Howard Watt 1924. First American edition. Very Good /Near Fine. A Very Good copy of the book with the rear hinge professionally tightened and a previous owner's name on the front free end paper. In a very bright Near Fine jacket publisher clipped on the four corners but retaining the original price. A late work by this master of science fiction and adventure first published posthumously. <br/><br/>This action-packed novel features piracy in the South Atlantic and the desperate measures undertaken by men stranded on a small island home to the southern-most lighthouse in the world. The Lighthouse at the End of the World was inspired by the real lighthouse at the southern tip of Argentina. Verne's novel was later adapted into the 1971 film The Light at the Edge of the World. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. G. Howard Watt unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 476

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND‎

‎Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1959. Hardcover. Fine. A volume in The Collector's Library of Famous Editions series. Signed on the title page by Ray Bradbury who wrote the introduction. First published in French in three volumes 1874 The Mysterious Island follows the adventures of a group of castaways on an uncharted island and is one of the books in Verne's series of Voyages extraordinaires or Extraordinary Voyages. A French novelist Jules Verne 1828-1905 had a pivotal influence on the development of modern science fiction. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. Collector's Notes laid in. Tall octavo. Full blue leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping two raised bands moire silk endpapers and a ribbon marker. A fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 70868

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. 493pp. black cloth with pictorial paper label on front cover gilt stamping to spine. Spine lettering is faded covers are slightly scuffed and soiled with scuffed spine ends and cover corners. Hinges just starting with a slight tone to contents. However contents are bright and complete overall a nice copy. . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 61746

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND . WRECKED IN THE AIR. Authorized Edition .‎

‎New York: Scribner 1875. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2-110 111: map 112: ads fly leaves at front and rear 48 illustrations 1 full-page map original decorated brown cloth front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind spine panel stamped in gold rear panel ruled in blind yellow endpapers. First authorized U.S. edition. The Henry L. Shepard 1874 piracy titled SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR may have preceded this Scribner Armstrong edition by a few days. The Scribner Armstrong edition is dated 1875 on the title page but the book was issued in late October 1874. It was copyrighted 26 October 1874 and Scribner Armstrong filed two deposit copies on 31 October 1874. WRECKED IN THE AIR the first of three parts of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND was issued simultaneously in cloth and in pictorial wrappers the latter binding state now rarely encountered. WRECKED IN THE AIR the only part of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND issued by Scribner Armstrong in a two-column format perhaps utilizing the plates of the SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE printing was rushed into print to compete with the 1874 Shepard piracy. 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. Myers 42. Taves and Michaluk V013. Early owner's gift inscription dated 1874 on the front flyleaf. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips a very good copy. #148056 Scribner unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 148056

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Mysterious Island Trilogy: Dropped From the Clouds Abandoned and The Secret of the Island.‎

‎London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1875. First editions in English of each volume in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island trilogy. Octavo three volumes in the original publisher's pictorial cloth all edges gilt illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispieces. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Each volume is in very good condition. Ownership inscriptions. A very sharp set. 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. Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 109382

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The mysterious island. Pictures by N.C. Wyeth‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1951. Small 4to pp. 493 1 ad; color illustrated title page 9 plates illustrated endpapers; original black cloth gilt-lettered spine color plate mounted to upper cover; spine quite faded edges rubbed and worn upper cover shows some soiling; discrete contemporary bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; textblock fine. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 44306

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE STAR OF THE SOUTH: A Tale of the Diamond Fields‎

‎1884. complete in Boy's Own issues Complete in six monthly issues 26 weekly issues of: THE BOY'S OWN PAPER. London: The "Leisure Hour" Office November 1884 - April 1885. Original orange printed wrappers. First Appearance in serial form of one of Jules Verne's less-known tales -- published in book form as THE SOUTHERN STAR in the US and as THE VANISHED DIAMOND in the UK. Victor Cyprien a French engineer currently living in the "Diamond Fields" of Griqualand South Africa desires to marry the beautiful daughter of Mr. Watkins a man who holds claims to the land that are the "Diamond Fields." Watkins has other plans for his daughter which includes her staying in South Africa and marrying one of the wealthier diamond miners. To put himself in a better position to win the hand of Alice Victor buys a share and begins working his own claim. However Alice convinces him to return to chemistry and pursue his theory that he can synthesize a diamond. The experiment appears to work as a 243-carat diamond is created and named "The Star of the South" which he gives to Alice. When the diamond is stolen Cyprien and three other potential suitors for the hand of Alice travel across South Africa in pursuit of the suspected culprit. Kytasaari The serialization in BOY'S OWN with the above title began in the weekly number of October 4 1884; beginning with the weekly number of December 6th the title was changed to THE STAR OF THE SETTLEMENT with a footnote allowing that the prior title "had been anticipated by a book already published"; and it ended with the number of March 28 1885. The monthly issues containing four or five weekly issues plus inserted ads and a frontispiece plate not connected to the Verne novel bear the following month's date. Included are numerous dramatic illustrations from the original French edition. Earlier in March 1885 George Munro published his cheap wrappered edition of THE SOUTHERN STAR a different translation than this and in October 1885 Sampson Low published their fully-illustrated hardbound edition of THE VANISHED DIAMOND this same translation. All six monthly issues are complete except that the final one lacks its color plate they were often removed and framed by buyers; one of the other issues has two plates as required and another has a larger folding color plate. Condition is very good-minus -- the main flaw being that the first issue has corner wear bugs mice of the first 18 leaves; otherwise there is just the usual relatively-minor wear of the delicate spines with generally very little soil at this point BOY'S OWN was still using string not staples so there is no staple rust. These are sizable magazines almost 12 inches tall so it is quite difficult to procure them in much better condition. Taves & Michaluk p. 167. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 12798

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE STEAM HOUSE. PART I. THE DEMON OF CAWNPORE . Translated from the French by A. D. Kingston . with THE STEAM HOUSE. PART II. TIGERS AND TRAITORS . Translated from the French by Miss Agnes D. Kingston .‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1881. Octavo signed in eights sewn in twelves two volumes: pp. 1-2 i-v vi vii viii ix-x 1 2-262 263-264: blank 265-272: ads note: first leaf is a blank; i-v vi vii viii ix-x 1 2-246 247-254: ads fly leaves at front and rear of each volume 50 full page illustrations by Leon Benett integral to text leaves not inserted plates and one inserted folding map in part I 48 full page illustrations by L. Benett integral to text leaves not inserted plates and one inserted folding map in part II original pictorial gray part I and brown part II bevel-edged cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First U.S. hardcover editions. Translation of LA MAISON A VAPEUR: VOYAGE A TRAVERS L'INDE SEPTENTRIONALE 1880. The adventures of four Englishmen traveling in India in two trailers pulled by a steam powered mechanical elephant. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2236. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Reginald 14608. Myers 46. Taves and Michaluk V021. Cloth of part I is worn at spine ends and corner tips it is a sound very good copy; part II is a bright fine copy. #164631 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 164631

‎VERNE JULES‎

‎The Survivors of the Chancellor‎

‎Boston: James R. Osgood 1876. First Edition. Former ownership inscription dated December 25 1875. Front hinge starting with a few small chips and tears to the front free endpaper. Original brown gilt-stamped decorated cloth with some rubbing and wear at the extremities. All illustrations present and complete. James R. Osgood hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 12355J

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS‎

‎Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1873. 291pp. 12mo. Terracotta cloth. decorated in blind and gilt. Frontis. Shaken somewhat and retightened between frontis and title extremities rubbed and a bit frayed at tips some soiling to cloth early ink name. Just a sound copy. First edition in English translated from the French by George W. Towle. Towle's name appears on the title-page a point generally taken to imply a later issue or more likely impression. BLEILER. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT78296

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Tour of the World in Eighty Days‎

‎Boston: James R. Osgood 1873. First Edition in English and First American. Frontispiece illustration of "Le Saint Michel". 1 vols. 12mo. Blue cloth with frontispiece reproduced in gilt on upper cover red edges greenish-black endpapers; some wear to extremities spine repaired ownership signature dated 1873 on fly leaf and title else internally fine. First Edition in English and First American. Frontispiece illustration of "Le Saint Michel". 1 vols. 12mo. First Edition in English of Verne's Masterpiece. This copy in blue cloth--a rare variant green being the usual color. Taves & Michaluk V011; Meyers 54 James R. Osgood unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 26890

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Tour of the World in Eighty Days; Home Instructor Library series From Steve Fossett collection‎

‎London: R.E. King Printer for Divine Hall & Co. Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn South Africa 1895. First Edition. Very Good. 8vo 7.25x5in; vii 184 pp. 1 advertisement; Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine blind stamped designs with gilt publisher design on front fore edge of covers beveled top edge gilt and all edges untrimmed; Shelf wear to covers edges and corners covers soiled with stain spots corners bumped and worn through spine darken with soling stain spots and repaired tears to top and bottom both hinges cracked and loose first pages loose text pages age darken and fragile due to quality of paper; Tipped in light green card with the book inscribed to Steve Fossett from Alex Tai dated April 5 2004 "Dear Steve On the day you and your team smashing the unassisted sailing record around the world. An original Verne on achieving the new "Sub Sixty Jules Verne" Yours Inspired Alex Tai" And handwritten letter dated the same "Dear Steve For 80 Days read less than 60!! Verne's fiction proves that fact can BE more inspiring. Well done to you and your team this year has the makings of one of your greatest. Best Wishes Alex Tai". A very rare book printed for a South African publisher and only one related copy found on WorldCat. Taves/Michaluk p. 138. Jules Verne 1828-1905 a French author famous for his many novels of adventures exploration and the future and the "Father of science fiction". In 1872 the serialized version of "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" first appeared in print. This was a grand travel adventure that capture the public interest when world travel was becoming easier. The printer Richard Edward King London published this book around 1895. It appears that an edition was printed for Divine Hall with special red cloth binding as described above. Divine Hall & Co. were general merchants gun dealers and dealers in other items in the communities of Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn from according to South African directories.Steve Fossett 1944-2007 was a successful commodities trader and an adventurer that set world records in balloons sailboats gliders and unique powered aircraft. In 2002 he was the first person to solo circumnavigate the world in a balloon uninterrupted and unrefueled and in 2005 made a solo nonstop unrefueled flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer sponsored by Richard Branson. In the 1980's Fossett began developing a library collection of books on adventure and exploration. He enlisted the services of an experienced bookseller to assist in building a collection of more than 2000 volumes focusing on significant and authoritative accounts of aeronautics polar Asian Australasian circumnavigation's mountaineering and others. In September 2007 Fossett disappeared on a solo flight in a light aircraft over the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. After an extensive search the wreckage was found by hikers a year later along the rugged Mt. Ritter range about 10 miles east of Yosemite National Park. R.E. King, Printer for Divine, Hall & Co., Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn, South Africa unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 13602

‎Verne Jules‎

‎THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN‎

‎1881. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1881. One page undated ads priced in sterling. Original bright red cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated American Edition also the first to be issued in a decorative cloth binding of one of Verne's odder tales. Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for honorable suicide by arranging for a friend to kill him. Learns that his fortune isn't lost after all. Tells friend thanks but there is no need to kill him. Friend replies that he has already arranged for some thug to do the deed and now can't contact him. This Verne title is also unusual in that all three early publishers of this tale on both sides of the Atlantic ultimately published it in the exact same cloth binding showing several characters "afloat on their backs propelled by the wind caught in minisails attached to toe-masts controlled by waistband halyards" T&M. The first edition in English was published in September 1879 by Lee & Shepard of Boston translated by Virginia Champlin and unillustrated both in wrappers and in plain cloth. By November George Munro then published it in wrappers in his Seaside Library. About a year later October 1880 but dated 1881 Dutton of New York published the tale as here from the British plates a different translation by Ellen Frewer -- with fifty full-page illustrations from the original French edition and in the binding designed by Sampson Low. In November Sampson Low published it in England perhaps waiting to make it a holiday offering. Finally a year after this September or October 1881 Lee & Shepard re-published the Champlin translation but with the fifty illustrations that had appeared in the Dutton and Sampson Low editions and in the same binding they had used. This copy is in bright red cloth one of several colors used without priority and is in near-fine condition just a hint of wear at the spine ends but unusually bright; the front endpaper bears a Christmas 1880 gift inscription verifying the book's actual year of publication. Taves & Michaluk V020. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 10597

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China‎

‎Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Also the first in the English language. Title page dated 1880 but actually printed in October of 1879. Original brown cloth with gilt on spine black lettering. pp. vi 271 ix. Very Good condition. A bit of foxing and dust-soiling to edges light wear to cloth. Erased blue penciled name on title page. A very nice copy of an adventure novel by the French author of Around the World in Eighty Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 150912005

‎Verne Jules‎

‎The Works of Jules Verne. Including: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days.‎

‎New York and London: Vincent Parke and Company 1911. The Complete Works of Jules Verne. Octavo 15 volumes bound in three quarters morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands raised bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers illustrated. Edited by Charles F. Horne. In excellent condition with some dampstaining to some of the boards and page extremities. Jules Verne is considered by many to be the father of science fiction with a prodigious oeuvre of novels and short fiction. This edition of his works includes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Also includes the first edition in English of Verne's later novel The Master of the World preceding the first separate English and American editions of 1914. Edited and with introductions by American scholar Charles F. Horne. Many of the works appear under title variants as found in Taves & Michaluk 95-102. Vincent Parke and Company hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 114596