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1875148056New 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
1899139637Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. 1899. Octavo pp. 3-5 6-161 163; 145 146-192 111 112-155 156-158: ads original pictorial green cloth front panel stamped in black white and light brown spine panel stamped in black and gold pictorial endpapers. First U.S hardcover edition. UN BILLET DE LOTERIE 1886 was first published in English in 1886 by George Munro of New York in two paperbound volumes as part of his "Seaside Library" the first volume was published by July 1886 and the second by December 1886. In August 1886 Sampson Low published the first British edition as THE LOTTERY TICKET. The plates of Munro's books were acquired by Donohue of Chicago who published this hardcover edition. Though mentioning only "Ticket No. 9672" on the binding and title page the book also includes parts of "Seaside Library" books by other authors including a selection of stories by Poe. Taves & Michaluk V031. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips gold stamping on spine panel quite tarnished private owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper small bookstore price sticker affixed to verso of front free endpaper a good copy of an uncommon book. #139637 M. A. Donohue & Co. unknown books
1883106081883. A Californian Mystery. Translated by W. J. Gordon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons n.d. 1883. Original aqua-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black. First American hardbound edition of this tale originally published the year before as L'ECOLE DES ROBINSONS. The New York Times panned this effort as cited in T&M: M. Jules Verne has never written books strongly marked with common sense; they have on the contrary offered unusual examples of the violation of all sensible ideas and the successful violation. But when it comes to Godfrey Morgan's trip around the world the submergeable steamer the plot to give him a taste of that Robinson Crusoe life of which he had dreamed the strain is too great. We are eager to be fooled but the fooling must have some semblance of art; it must not be bald imbecility. Jules Verne has no right to inveigle the public into buying such a book on the strength of his former novels; it is an abuse of the good-nature of the public. Scribner would not issue GODFREY MORGAN again. George Munro managed as usual to produce the first edition in English for his self-wrappered "Seaside Library" in January 1883; Sampson Low's British edition fully illustrated came out in March of that year followed by this Scribner edition from the British sheets in October. Whereas the British edition shows on its front cover Godfrey firing on lions and tigers from his perch inside a tree the Scribner edition shows Tartlet stumbling as he runs from a hungry crocodile. This copy is in aqua-grey cloth; we have also seen dark brown and light orange-brown no priority. It is a very good-plus copy with very light wear at the spine ends and very minor darkening of the cloth. Taves & Michaluk V024; Myers 29. unknown books
187893561878. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1878. Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt all edges gilt. First English Edition of this tale in which the heroes are carried away through space upon the comet "Gallia" visiting much of the solar system. The cover but not the title page bears the sub-title "The Career of a Comet." In September 1877 George Munro issued a pirated wrappered version of this tale in their "Seaside Library"; a month later the Philadelphia firm of Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger issued the first half of this tale in a clothÂbound volume. Then in November 1877 though dated 1878 this authorized Sampson Low edition in England and an authorized Scribner Armstrong edition were both published the entire tale not just the first half. This copy is in olive green cloth; we have also seen terra-cotta and light lilac-brown no priority. Condition is very good spine a bit dull; the volume has been recased within its original binding preserving the original endpapers reinforced at the inner hinges. This is one of Verne's most intriguing space exploration tales. Taves & Michaluk V016; Edwards 16. unknown books
1909136551909. 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
1833D270Paris: Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation 1833. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Benett. Illustrated red cloth with elaborate detail stamped in gilt black and blind all edges gilt; pp. 4 half-title p. illus. half-title p. title-p. 410 10 ads richly illustrated throughout. First illustrated edition. Light scuffing along joints edges of boards rear board; spine tips frayed. VG with bright gilt tight binding clean text block. Text in French. Lovely and very cool! <br/><br/> Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation hardcover books
1873JC8942Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1873. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine; 12mo; pp. xvi 315 1 4 ads plus frontispiece and 11 plates. Spine tips and corners bumped and frayed; rear board lightly soiled; hinges tender; text block rolled with upper board extending about 3/8 inches beyond lower. <br/><br/> Porter & Coates hardcover books
187929713London: George Routledge and Sons 1879. 1st thus Taves-Michaluk V011. This edition not in Myers though see entry 54 for the 1st US edition of 1873 & other subsequent editions known to them. Blue cloth binding blocked in gilt & black. Bevelled edges. Pale yellow eps. "Every Boy's Library" stamped to top of front board. VG spine slightly darkened/po name stamp to blank side of frontis. 254 pp. Frontis. 8vo. 17.5 cm x 11.5 cm. <br/><br/>Very scarce translation of Verne's classic. much more so than the Towle which is that usually encountered. George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
1941WRCAM48307Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1941. vii1192pp. plus three full-page illustrations and twenty-two maps most folding. Folding frontispiece. Quarto. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards gilt leather spine labels t.e.g. Front board slightly bowed. Bookplate on rear pastedown. A touch of light scattered foxing. Very good. The introductory material explains the process by which the Spanish colonized Florida while the bulk of the text explains the evolution of the defense system of Florida from the early defenses of St. Augustine up through the end of the French and Indian War when the Spanish were forced to give up claims to Florida to the British. The many maps and plans are mainly devoted to fortresses. Carnegie Institution of Washington hardcover books
199164643New York: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 50 black and white illustrations including a facsimile of the frontispiece portrait of Sir Isaac Newton taken from the original engraving by George Vertue for the third edition of the Principia. New York: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. First edition - deluxe issue limited to 100 copies bound in quarter goatskin by hand and containing a re-strike from the original engraved copper plate of the famous frontispiece of Newton. "The Verne L. Roberts collection is devoted to rare and important books in the fields of mechanics biomechanics the strength of materials and the history of technology. This is one of the most remarkable private libraries to be formed in recent decades and the books and manuscripts in this catalogue including many of the classics of physics demonstrate the origins of these fields of science and their development through the ensuing three centuries. The roots of these sciences are also illustrated through a number of important 15th and 16th century books. The catalogue describes approximately 1200 items. The extensive bibliographical and historical descriptions of the books and authors document and define the growth and development of ideas in the history of science and technology. Many of the books are noted for their rarity and have not hitherto been described adequately from a historical or bibliographical point of view. Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over the blue goatskin spine with silver titles. A fine copy. Jonathan A. Hill hardcover books
187423316New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co 1874. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original green decorative cloth embossed in blind and gilt; viii232pp.; frontispiece 47 plates. Light shelf wear spine a hint cocked and gilt very slightly dulled ownership signature effaced on front free endpaper else a Very Good or better copy. Scribner, Armstrong & Co unknown books
1890biblio119iv373 pages with eighty-one plates including frontispiece. Octavo 8 1/2" x 6" bound in the variant mustard cloth with spine and cover lettering in gilt and black pictorial on spine and cover. Translated from the French by A Estoclet. Illustrations by George Roux. First American edition preceding the English edition.<br /><br />Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. 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 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979 between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction" as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> Corners gently bumped light age toning to preliminary pages some internal fingering end paper renewed spine darkened else a very good copy. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
189513602London: 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
18671277116Paris: ; J. Hetzel et Cie. Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation 1867. Hardcover. 4to. 467pp. 220pp.; VG-; 1/4 bound red leather spine with gilt lettering marbled boards endpapers; rebound; mild shelfwear primarily to board edges and corners; two volumes bound together pagination not continuous; moderate foxing throughout; Voyage au centre de la Terre has a separate half-title and title page; Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras has the frontispiece; text in French; shelved case 8. 1277116. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. ; J. Hetzel et Cie. Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation hardcover books
1874015260Henry L. Shepard 1874. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Near Fine Copy of The Shepard Edition in Terra Cotta Ink Name Excellent Fresh Copy. Henry L. Shepard Hardcover books
1890101926New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1890. Octavo pp. 1-2: blank i-ii iii-iv 1-373 374: blank note: first leaf is a blank 84 inserted plates with full-page illustrations by George Roux plus a small vignette on page iv original pictorial gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First edition in English. A family of circus performers stranded in America after their money is stolen decide to return to Europe via the Bering Straits. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Myers 7. Taves and Michaluk V037. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips front cover and spine panel soiled several small stains to fore-edge of text block a sound tight copy with clean interior. #101926 Cassell Publishing Company unknown books
1881L0508viii24432 ad dated January 1881 pages with two title one pictorial illustrations. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black lettering to spine with pictorial and pictorial black embossed pictorial cover page ends in gilt. Translated by W J Gordon. Gallagher Mistichelli and Van Erde A 50 First British edition.<br /><br />Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft. Unlike many of his other novels this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. This novel involves how Joam Garral a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada a Brazilian timber raft that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft scenery and journey are described in detail. Joam Garral grants his daughter's wish to travel to Belém where she wants to marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals travel down the Amazon River using a giant timber raft. At Belém Joam plans to restore his good name as he is still wanted in Brazil for a crime he did not perpetrate. A scoundrel named Torres offers Joam absolute proof of Joam's innocence but the price that Torres wants for this information is to marry Joam's daughter which is inconceivable to Joam. The proof lies in an encrypted letter that will exonerate Garral. When Torres is killed the Garral family must race to decode the letter before Joam is executed.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Recased occasional spotting spine dulled some occasional finger to pages corners gently bumped else a very good copy. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington hardcover books
187523320London: George Routledge and Sons 1875. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; original blue pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; iv269116pp.; text illus. throughout. General minor shelf wear corners a bit bumped contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown else a Very Good and sound copy. Second volume of "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" preceded by The English at the North Pole. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1965144489Paris: Les Films Ariane 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur Jean-Paul Belmondo who after a series of suicide attempts hires hit-men to kill him but after he meets Alexandrine Pinardel Ursula Andress he tries to cancel the hit.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Malaysia China Nepal India and France. <br/><br/>6.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1874019163Philadelphia PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early edition. Octavo 8vo. 620 pages of text followed by iv pages of publisher's advertisement. Original green decorative cloth binding is moderately rubbed and frayed at the extremities with minor splitting to the hinges; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The front endpaper has a tear and crease. Previous owner's bookplate on the inside front cover and on the second front endpaper. There is a small bump to the text block at the top corner lightly creasing less than half of the text. Contains 170 black-and-white illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. J.B. Lippincott & Co. Hardcover books
1927875231927. WYETH N. C. VERNE Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF a Courier of the Czar. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. First edition thus with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page nine color plates and color-illustrated endpapers. viii 397 pp. Octavo black cloth with a large color-illustrated label on upper board and gilt-stamped title on spine. Clean and fresh it is a very good copy in an illustrated dust-jacket that has small chips at heel and crown and shows slight edgewear. This is one of the Scribner series of illustrated classics for younger readers. unknown books
1884127981884. 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
1873W0822BPBoston: James R. Osgood and Company 1873. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt sketch of Verne boat on upper board. All edges stained red bottom stain a little faded. Some wear at spine ends joints corners and edges. Spine somewshat darkened and book canted slightly. Upper hinge starting. Tissue guarded frontispiece sketch by Verne of his yacht as seen on upper board; small brown stain on title page extending to tissue guard and to next couple of pages. Translated from the French by George Towle. This is the first English version of Verne's Eighty Days Around the World and scarce indeed in this condition. . First Edition Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Author. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Trade. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
1899106141899. Translated from the French by Laura E. Kendall. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. n.d. 3 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black light blue and peach. First American hardbound edition. UN BILLET DE LOTERIE was first published in France in 1886 and that same year George Munro of New York was the first to publish this in English -- in two self-wrappered volumes of his "Seaside Library" the first volume was published by July 1886 and the second by December 1886. In between these two in August Sampson Low published the first British edition as THE LOTTERY TICKET. Munro being of course a pirate publisher his business went downhill fast after the passage of the International Copyright Act in 1891 clearly George did not offer enough "soft money" to his legislators. His "Seaside Library" publications became the property of Donohue of Chicago and this book published "by the turn of the century" T&M is one result: though mentioning only "Ticket No. 9672" on the binding and title page it also includes various other former "Seaside Library" numbers by other authors including Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." There were no other American editions of this Verne tale between the Munro two-volume wrappered first and this Donahue one -- making this the first American hardbound edition. Both the front cover and the spine portray lighter-than-air flying machines. The usual problem for this book is the erosion of the peach-colored pigment used on the binding and this copy is no exception: although the book has very little overall wear the peach is entirely missing from the spine in fact it appears never to have been applied there and partly from the front cover. Taves & Michaluk V031; also see Myers 52. unknown books
18771260002New York: Scribner Armstrong & Company 1877. First American Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo in red and black gilt cloth; VG; book slanted towards the right; moderate shelf wear; slight fraying around bottom edge; strong sewn binding; age-toned paper clean; text clean; pp. 377; contains 90 full page engravings; in good condition; shelved in Case # 8; please contact us for shipping costs. 1260002. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Scribner, Armstrong & Company hardcover books
