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1881105061881. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1881. 1 page undated ads with prices in sterling. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated Edition of this curious tale about a Chinaman Kin-Fo who is convinced he needs to suffer in order to appreciate true happiness -- and winds up planning to commit suicide then contracting for someone else to kill him then changing his mind. Dutton's edition though dated 1881 was actually published in October 1880 -- exactly twelve months after the unillustrated edition by Lee and Shepard of Boston dated 1880. Although this Dutton edition comes from the British sheets including the same binding design the same plates and even an ad leaf for Verne's works with prices in sterling it was published a month earlier than Sampson Low's first British edition. This is an unusually bright clean copy -- fine other than a little foxing only on the edges of the leaves. Taves & Michaluk V020; Myers 55. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1822Boston: James R. Osgood and Co 1874. First edition Original blind stamped and gilt decorated rust colored cloth small octavo. 292 pages plus one page of adverts original blue/green coated endpapers. Wear to corners and spine extremities but remaining a pleasing copy. Lettering and sailing ship in gilt on the cover bright. All edges stained red. Some slight loss of color on rear endpapers along inner hinge but otherwise clean and unmarked. hardcover books
18782291995Scribner Armstrong & Co 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Tear along spine head corners rubbed with some loss hinges weak one gathering sprung but holding. 1878 Hard Cover. x 4 370 4 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt & black titles gilt decorations including images of planets and hot air balloon. Translated from Verne's original French by Ellen E. Frewer with 96 engraved illustrations. One of Verne's lesser-known works Hector Servadac also titled Off on a Comet in some translations tells the story of a group of people living on a piece of land that has broken away from Earth after the comet Gallia collides with it. They observe strange discrepancies between the natural laws of Earth and those that apply to their surroundings struggle among one another to establish power and ultimately decide to work together to escape the comet. Originally published in French in 1877 as Les Voyages Extraordinaires: Hector Servadac Voyages et Aventures a Travers Le Monde Solaire this American edition was printed in New York the following year. Scribner, Armstrong & Co hardcover books
1890100241890. 85 Dessins de George Roux. 12 Grandes Gravures en Chromotypographie. 2 Grandes Cartes en Chromolithographie. Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie. n.d. 1890. 8 pp ads dated 1890-1891. Original red cloth decorated in black gilt and silver all edges gilt.<br/><br/> First Illustrated Edition of one of Verne's great mysterious tales of travel: César Cascabel and his family have made enough money to return home to France from California. Unfortunately their trip east is cut short when all their money is stolen. Their only option is to return to France by traveling west via Alaska the Bering Strait and Siberia. Along the way they encounter Mr. Sergius a Russian with his companion Kayette an Alaskan native both of whom join the band on their trip west. However Mr. Sergius has a secret which may jeopardize the safety of the family when they reach the Russian frontier. Kytasaari This was the only Verne title that first appeared in this binding -- the cartonnage "aux deux elephants" which some other tales shared but no other has some of the front cover panels in silver as here. Not only is this the earliest binding style for CÉSAR CASCABEL but also the ad catalogue at the rear is the earliest issue dated 1890-1891. This is a remarkably fine bright copy spine very slightly faded but much less than usual and with none of the usual foxing within -- of one of Hetzel's most extravagant bindings. Bottin pp 159-160. unknown books
189392971893. 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
185221741Philadelphia: John Sartain & Co 1852. First English Edition. Disbound. Good. First English Edition. A non-contiguous assemblage of material from Sartain's Union Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book from 1851 and 1852. The volume missing the front board would benefit from being disassembled and rebound in it's component parts - half title pages are mis-matched engravings are found in odd places etc. We have not collated this volume and cannot guarantee completeness of the other articles engravings etc other than to note that the Verne and Thoreau articles noted in this description are present and complete and that the issue title pages are also present hence the pricing at well below "market values". There are numerous other interesting items in this assemblage including an early poem with color plate Godey engravings etc etc. Disbound. Contains 2 literary giants in original publications before they were well known - Jules Verne and Henry David Thoreau. The Verne piece "A Voyage in a Balloon" was translated from the French by Anne T. Wilbur. Taves and Michaluk V012 p 143 note that "This was apparently the first time Verne ever appeared in English . The assemblage also contains "The Iron Horse" and "A Poet Buying a Farm" both by Thoreau. These articles are notable for being early contributions to Thoreau's famous work "Walden Or Life in the Woods" published in 1854 which detailed his personal experiences and reflections near Walden Pond in Concord Massachusetts. John Sartain & Co unknown books
18769009180Chicago: Donnelley Loyd & Co. 1876. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One volume profusely illustrated." Each book with a separate title page. 591 pages with advertisement for Verne's "Mysterious Island" following. Front cover loose with first free endpaper missing. Back endpaper torn. Stamp of former owner the commanding officer of Fort Custer Michigan and on first inside page and inscription on verso: "To Soldier Boys" Half leather binding rubbed along spine and edges otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Donnelley, Loyd & Co. hardcover books
19171324595Amsterdam: Uitgevers-Maatschappy 19---1917. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Set of 14 of the 51 titles by Jules Verne in the copiously illustrated Dutch series "Jules Verne's Geïllustreerde Wonderreizen" ; Boards are in blue cloth with gold and black debossed print and decorative illustration all volumes have wear to spine caps and corners most volumes have cocked spines; all volumes have tanning to endpapers mild age-toning to paper spotting to edges intermittent spine beaks; Text in Dutch; Set includes the following titles: <br /> No. 4. De Kinderen van Kapitein Grant Australië no date small surface tears to front cover vendor label on rear cover text block separated from cover tear to first page few loose pages occasional foxing especially to initial and final pages 226 pages - No. 5. De Kinderen van Kapitein Grant de Stille Zuidzee no date name in pencil on front flyleaf slight foxing color map on final page 203 pages - No. 6. 20.000 Mijlen Onder Zee Oostelijk Halfrond 1917 faded spine shelfwear to covers text block split at page 64 pp. 66-94 separated from binding 192 pages - No. 7. 20.000 Mijlen Onder Zee Westelijk Halfrond 1917 faded spine shelfwear text block separated from cover 220 pages - No. 7. 20.000 Mijlen Onder Zee Westelijk Halfrond no date missing title page stray pencil marks and long hinge tear to half-title page text block separated from cover a few loose pages 220 pages - No. 9. Het Geheimzinnige Eiland de Luchtschipbreukelingen naar de 20ste fransche uitgave door Gerard Keller 1909 pencil notation and doodling to endpapers 223 pages - No. 13. Het Zwarte Goud no date small tear to cover at front hinge text block split at page 2 208 pages - No. 14. Hektor Servadac Reizen en Avonturen in de Planetenwereld de Vulkaan-Bewoners no date penciled name on front flyleaf small vendor label on front pastedown 208 pages - No. 19. De Schipbreuk van de Chancellor gevolgd door "Martin Paz" no date occasional foxing throughout especially to initial and final pages 232 pages - No. 21. El Dorado en het Monsterkanon van Staalstad gevolgd door Meester Zacharias no date penciled checks to series page occasional foxing throughout especially to initial and final pages 218 pages - No. 23. Het Land der Buitenste Duisternis het Drijvende Eiland gevolgd door Een Treurspel in de Wolken no date fading to spine light foxing throughout especially to initial and final pages 234 pages - No. 28. Een Vlotreis Achthonderd Mijlen Op de Amazone 1908 text block detached from covers few loose pages 219 pages - No. 29. Eene Vlotreis het Raadselschrift fevolgd door Een Drijvende Stad no date text block split from cover at front hinge occasional light foxing 245 pages - No. 41. Robur de Veroveraar 1915 cracked hinges name in ink on front flyleaf ink checks on series contents page 239 pages. Shelved above WWII<br /> <br><br><br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1324595. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Uitgevers-Maatschappy hardcover books
1874015130Henry L. Shepard 1874. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy First Edition 1874 Decorative Brown Terracotta Cloth Beautiful Fresh Copy of This Great Sci-Fiction Classic. Great Movie of The Same. Beautiful Copy. Henry L. Shepard Hardcover books
48950 black & white illus. including a facsimile of the frontispiece portrait of Sir Isaac Newton taken from the orig. engraving by Vertue for the third edition of the Principia. Large 4to 424 pp. New York: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. Limited edition: the deluxe issue of 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. Also available in a Regular Edition limited to 1000 copies handsomely bound in clothbacked decorated boards. 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. Fully indexed. hardcover books
1879110060Lippincott 1879. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. An unrecorded early printing 1879 illustrated First Thus. Very good condition in original cloth. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Lippincott hardcover books
187480265Boston: William F. Gill and Company 1874. Octavo pp. 1-2 3-5 6 7-285 286: blank fly leaf at front five inserted plates original pictorial green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold slate coated endpapers. First U.S. edition Collects "A Drama in Mid-Air" a.k.a. "A Drama in the Air" "Dr. Ox's Hobby" a.k.a. "Dr. Ox's Experiment" "Master Zachary" a.k.a. "Master Zacharius" and "A Winter Among the Ice-Fields a.k.a. "A Winter Amid the Ice" by Verne and "Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc" by Paul Verne. Apparently the only edition with English translation by A. L. Alger. This edition mostly likely unauthorized may have preceded the "authorized" 1874 Osgood edition published as DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT AND OTHER STORIES. The Gill edition was advertised as "now ready" on 11 July 1874. The Osgood edition with contents translated by George M. Towle was published in late June or early July 1874. Both American editions preceded Sampson Low's British edition which was published in November 1874. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2232. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Reginald 14624. Myers 16. Taves and Michaluk V012. Cloth lightly worn at head and tail of spine panel and lower corner tips minute chip from top edge of front free endpaper a tight bright very good copy. A nice copy of a handsome production. #80265 William F. Gill and Company unknown books
1909499London: Richards 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st edition in English. Original blue cloth the hottest stars are blue. Fine. The plot is Verne's take on H. G. Wells' In the Days of the Comet 1904 and this edition of it has never been scarce even when it's fine. Right now there are 20 copies in cloth for sale with fine ones at $500 to $800 verifying that sellers can't find buyers at those prices obstinate sellers cautious buyers and the only way seller and buyer can defeat this kind of inertia is to unite at a fair price in a market driven alliance of reason. So seek union but don't support irrationality and hide your frustration since it will do you no lasting good to call out a stubborn bookseller and tell him or her "your end of the boat is sinking" Book Code. Richards hardcover books
1874014615Scribner Armstrong & Company 1874. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Copy In Brown Decorative Cloth !874 on Title-Page First American Edition ink Name Excellent Fresh Copy. Scribner, Armstrong & Company Hardcover books
187991891879. Dessins par Benett. Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie. n.d. 1879. 8 pp ads dated 1879-1880. Original red cloth decorated in black and gilt all edges gilt.<br/><br/> First Illustrated Edition first issue in the "initiales JV et JH" binding and with 1879-1880 ads at the rear -- in the original French. At the end of 1879 this tale was issued both by itself as here and combined with LES CINQ CENTS MILLIONS DE LA BEGUM in a "double volume" with a different binding style. Condition is very good to near-fine minor wear at the extremities and lower front joint very light cover soil. Bottin p. 480. 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
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
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
