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57678London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1900. Adventure FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.viii; 408. With 59 wood engraved plates by Roux and the folding plate of 'The Noble Game of the United States of America' on india paper to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and white black and orange decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; patterned green endpapers. Gently toned with a light tobacco scent; slightly cocked. Some light occasional marks to leaves with a small marginal tear to p.1/2. Moderate rubbing to cloth. Four plates tipped back in; somewhat rubbed and chipped to edges. Very good. One of Verne's later novels first published in French in 1899 and curiously never published in America where it is set. In a re-hash of the 'impossibly vast inheritance' genre an American leaves $60000000 to the winner of a huge Goose Game laid out over the whole continent of North America the seven contestants being specifically named in his Will. Printed in low numbers due to the declining popularity of Verne at the time of publication and consequently rare thus. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900 unknown
189786869Paris: Hetzel 1897. Fine. Hetzel Paris s. d. 1903-1904 18 x 28.20 cm relié New edition illustrated with 41 engravings and one map for From the Earth to the Moon by De Montaut and engraved by Pannemaker and with 44 engravings by Bayard and Neuville engraved by Hildibrand Binding known as ""au globe doré"" type 4 second cover Engel i spine with lighthouse. Original blue endpapers lightly yellowed at margins as usual headcaps somewhat rubbed joints cracked at head and foot. Handsome copy. Mythical science fiction titles by the author rare in this binding. In the first novel of this diptych the Gun Club of Baltimore after the Civil War attempts to send men to the moon in a shell. In Around the Moon three men are fired from a cannon in a shell bound for the moon. We know how much Verne's imagination based on scientific knowledge would prove prophetic and inspire numerous artists. Hetzel unknown
18707570Very Good. c. 1870s. Hardcover. Round the Moon; Around the World in Eighty Days; Dropped From the Clouds; To the North Pole; Survivors of the Chancellor. 13 Lakeside Library issues containing 14 stories bound in one. Three quarter brown leather bound cover over brown cloth boards has heavy wear and some small chips to the spine cloth but clean and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs are foxed with modest soiling and a tear and creased page. First page has a half-inch chip at the top edge and a 2" tear at the bottom. Pages have very minimal and sparse foxing with soiling to a couple of pages but overall in very good condition. . . hardcover
1884654881 vol. in-8 cartonnage bleu aux 2 éléphants de Lenègre type 3, titre dans le cartouche, toutes tranches dorées, coll. Les voyages extraordinaires, Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation J. Hetzel et Cie, s.d. [1884-1885], 4 ff., 217 pp., 2 ff., VIII-211 pp. et 4 ff. n. ch. (catalogue CH)
1873L0820z<p>2 blanks6204 ads2 blank pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x 6" bound in original publisher's full brick cloth spine and front stamped in gilt and black; all edges trimmed and gilt. Taves &Michaluk V005 First American edition and first edition in English.<br /><br />This was Verne's fifth book originally published in French in 1867 as <em>Les Enfants du Captain Grant</em>. It is one of the few of Verne's works that Sampson Low never published in England. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately either as <em>Voyage Round the World</em> or as <em>The Mysterious Document/On the Track and Among the Cannibals</em>. This rare copy with all page edges gilt one of very few known of. In fact there were very few American editions of any Verne title that was available with all edges gilt.<br /><br /><strong>Condition: </strong>Rear hinge beginning but still sound; couple of previous owner signatures and one label to front flyleaf; faint marginal spot- and thumb-soiling scattered throughout else very good to fine.</p> J B Lippincott Company hardcover
1881L1473<p>2 volumes: <em>Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon.</em> i-v vi vii viii 1 2-244 16-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear with 43 inserted plates with illustrations by Leon Benett and inserted folding map. <em>The Cryptogram</em>. i-v vi vii viii 1-3 4-254 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "Fall of 1882" inserted at rear with 36 inserted plates with illustrations by Leon Benett and inserted folding map. Small octavos 7 1/2" x 5 12" bound in original publisher's pictorial bevel-edged brown cloth with front and spine panels stamped in black and gold cream endpapers in both volumes. Translated by W. J. Gordon. Myers 28. Taves and Michaluk V022. Evans XXXII 95: 105–141 First American editions.</p><p><em>The Giant Raft</em> is an adventure novel involving how Joam Garral a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada 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.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong><em>Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon</em> former owner's signature to front end paper. <em>The Cryptogram</em> stain to head gutter diminishing in preceding pages. Book plate to front paste down and signture to front end paper with owner's stamp else a very good set.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1875158341875. a handsome set Together two volumes. With 129 126 total 255 Illustrations by Riou. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons 1875 actually 1874. 14 pp undated ads in the latter volume. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt.<br/> <br/> First British Edition of the two volumes that together comprise Verne's maritime tale THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS. Crewmembers sign on for a mysterious voyage to an unknown destination in a ship without a captain; ultimately Captain Hatteras reveals himself after posing as a member of the crew and announces that they are headed for the North Pole. Ultimately after shipwreck and days on an ice floe a mute Capt. John Hatteras winds up in an asylum near Liverpool where he goes on daily walks always facing north. The American edition published by Osgood in mid-1874 all in one volume was the first edition in English. Routledge published these two volumes in late 1874 though dated 1875 -- apparently not simultaneously as a note at the end of the first volume's text indicates that the other volume "will shortly be published". Some copies of the first volume likewise dated 1875 bear the front cover and title page title of THE ENGLISH AT THE NORTH POLE; regarding precedence it is believed that A JOURNEY as here came first because later Routledge reprints bear the THE ENGLISH title. Routledge subsequently in 1875 published the entire tale in one volume. Both volumes are bound in terra-cotta pictorial cloth though the cloth of one volume has a "pebblier" texture than the other -- a variation we have had before; Myers mentions only blue or red cloth and we have also seen orange-brown and green -- no color priority known. Both volumes are in fine condition slightly askew but scarcely any wear. The same color and in great condition they make quite a pair. Taves & Michaluk V004; Myers p. 65; also see Mistichelli A16. Provenance: both volumes bear a Christmas 1874 penciled inscription to the same person. unknown
1879157001879. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1879. 32 pp ads dated October 1879. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt all page edges gilt.<br/> <br/> First British Edition. A whale hunt in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and the Americas ends in tragedy and the American apprentice Dick Sands as the only surviving crew member becomes captain -- at fifteen years of age. Not possessing the full skills of a sailor Dick tries to get the ship east to the South American coast. They encounter an overturned slave ship abandoned by its crew but with Africans still alive. The Portuguese cook on board has plans of his own and manages to get the ship diverted to eventually land in the Portuguese colony of Angola on the continent of Africa. The cook's plans involve killing Dick and selling the other passengers of the ship into slavery Kytasaari. Published in France as UN CAPITAINE DE QUINZE ANS this tale was first published in English in November 1878 by the American pirate publisher Munro a low-budget production with just 20 crude engravings titled DICK SAND not SANDS. This Sampson Low authorized London edition with over 90 full-page but integral illustrations was published the following month in December; at the end of that month Charles Scribner's Sons published their edition of the same translation both dated 1879. This copy is in brown cloth; we have also had copies in green and in blue no priority. This is an amazingly bright copy with scarcely any wear -- fine except that one of the original endpapers is mildly cracked. This Sampson Low edition is quite uncommon -- considerably scarcer than the slightly-later Scribner one -- perhaps because this is an example of the UK experiment in the late 1870s and early 1880s of binding with staples rather than with string soon abandoned as a failure as books would fall apart as the staples rusted. Taves & Michaluk V018; Edwards 18. Housed in an attractive clamshell case with leather label. unknown
1881156791881. a handsome pair in teal Together two volumes. Translated by W.J. Gordon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1881 2nd vol: 1882. 16 pp Vol I undated ads 16 pp Vol II ads dated Fall 1882. Original teal cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled boards.<br/> <br/> First American Hardbound Editions of the two volumes that together form the tale THE GIANT RAFT sited on the Amazon River published as LA JANGADA in the original French. Joam Garral of Iquitos Peru concedes to his daughter's wish to travel to Belem Brazil where she can marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals plan to make the journey to Belem down the Amazon River via a giant raft a "jangada" -- and it is giant! -- pictured on each front cover it is 1000 feet long by 60 feet wide. Along the way Joam plans to get his good name restored as he is still wanted in Brazil for a crime he did not commit. Absolute proof of Joam's innocence lies in the hands of a scoundrel named Torres who has a cryptogram that will exonerate Joam; however the price that Torres wants for this information Garral's daughter is much too high. Kytasaari Classic Verne -- adventure intrigue a cryptogram all the while educating his reading public about life along the Amazon. George Munro published Part I of this tale as THE JANGADA in July 1881 and Part II in January 1882 in his self-wrappered triple-columned "Seaside Library." Sampson Low published the two volumes of their illustrated British edition in November 1881 and May 1882 and Scribner published these two volumes in December 1881 and September 1882. Both Sampson Low and Scribner bound this tale in a format uniform with Verne's two-volume THE STEAM HOUSE then just published. Both volumes are in teal-colored cloth; we have also seen terra-cotta brown and olive-grey though there is no priority between the four colors this teal is the scarcest and the most attractive. Each volume includes a fold-out map of the Upper and Lower Amazon respectively. The volumes are in bright close-to-fine condition a touch of very faint soil on the blank rear covers. Though the American editions are not as scarce as the British it is tough to find the pair in matching color and in this condition. Taves & Michaluk V022; Myers 28. unknown
187509877London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1875. First Edition. Octavo 310 pages; publisher's pictorial green cloth decorated in black and gilt; yellow coated end papers all edges gilt. Part I of The Mysterious Island trilogy. Illustrated in black and white. Translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston. Inner hinges repaired. Internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Very Good. Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle unknown
alb1b00a4bb48299d3fVern Jules: Captain Grants Children: A Journey Around the World. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Vern Zhyul. Deti kapitana Granta: Puteshestvie vokrug sveta. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).The book is in a safety case.
albc7729d4bc9dad762Verne Jules. A mysterious island. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Vern Zhyul. Tainstvennyy ostrov. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).A novel in three parts. With drawings by Fehr M.: Typography by I.D. Sytin 1897. 184 + 191 + 184s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbc7729d4bc9dad762
57683London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1891 1890. Historical Fiction FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.viii; 172; 134 34. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1890. With 79 of the 80 wood engraved plates by Tiret-Bognet including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and black white and orange decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; light orange-coated endpapers. Lacking plate facing p.86. Two further plates tipped back in which are rubbed and chipped to edges. Tobacco-scented with a few very minor marks to leaves. A little shaken with a few gatherings proud. Light spotting to endpapers and facing leaves. Moderate rubbing and a little bumping to cloth; sunned to spine. Very good. A novel set during the Lower Canada i.e. Quebec Rebellion of 1837 and 1838. First published in French in 1889 and first translated into English in America later the same year. Extremely rare thus. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891 [1890] unknown
1894003809FN.Y.: The Merriam Company 1894. First American Edition. Very Good. A very good and tight copy. First American Edition. Bleiler Science Fiction The Early Years 2240. Light soiling to text block. Corners a little soft. No ownership signatures. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 211pp. 38 b/w illustrations. No ownership signatures. Gold gilt lettering to spine and cover is very bright. Book comes with a clear acetate wrapper. The Merriam Company unknown
1877015039Scribner Armstrong & Company 1877. Book. Near Fine Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Plus Copy in Green Decorative Cloth First Edition 1877 A Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Very Rare in this Condition. Scribner, Armstrong & Company Hardcover books
188475950Le Figaro 1884. Fine. Le Figaro 1884 - 1893 In-Folio 3 journaux agrafés Complete collection of three novellas in pre-first editions published in three special Christmas issues of Le Figaro illustré all featuring unique illustrations not found in later editions. Fritt-Flacc. Le Figaro illustré. Christmas 1884. Black and white illustrations by Willette. Also contains: Voyage circulaire by Emile Zola Le rire by Eugène Mouton Le chocolat by Thimothée Trimm. Black illustrations. Discreet restorations to front cover. 37x47.7cm M. Ré-Dièze et Mlle Mi-Bémol: Le Figaro illustré. Christmas 1893. 8 color illustrations by Myrbach. Also contains: Jim et Jack by Augustin Filon illustrated by Julien Moreau. La fée au rocher by Armand Silvestre illustrated in color. Marie-Marion by Jules Claretie color illustrations by Jules Dubufe fils. 2 small restorations to outer margin 2 tears to spine without loss. 31x41cm Aventures de la famille Raton. Le figaro illustré. Christmas 1891. 17 color illustrations by Myrbach. Discreet restorations to spine. 32x42cm The three newspapers are of notably different sizes. Modern royal blue cloth case bordered with cream paper. Second case into which the first slides containing the newspapers royal blue cloth bordered with cream paper. Very good condition of the 3 newspapers with some minimal defects minute lack at edge micro tear etc. Le Figaro hardcover
187879033Paris: J. Hetzel 1878. Fine. J. Hetzel Paris 1878 S.d 13.50 x 19.50 cm relié The rare first edition. 16 out-of-text engravings by Adrien Marie. Un hivernage dans les glaces is one of the first titles in Hetzel's famous white collection; the collection was launched with 9 titles including Un hivernage dans les glaces. A primitive first version had previously appeared in the Musée des familles in 1855 spread over several issues of the magazine. This official version was rewritten by Verne revised and modified and is the same as found in the collective editions. The primitive version was naturally forgotten until the Bulletin de la société Jules Verne republished the version in 2003 in a limited edition of 50 copies. Publisher's binding type 1 ""with oval vignette"". This title features 5 different types of binding but the first type is the only one corresponding to the typography of Hetzel bindings. Spine with stylized black and gold vegetal motif a gilt cartouche for the title. Rich decoration on the upper board with angular red fleur-de-lis on black ground. Large oval vignette illustrated scene printed on percaline. Second board with fleur-de-lis decoration. Plate signed Souze binding by Lenègre. Fine first plate. Corners good barely turned for some. Spine good headcaps rubbed. Second board good with slight shadowed areas. Some light brown stains on certain pages but overall fresh with paper remaining white. A handsome copy. J. Hetzel unknown
190383379Hetzel | Paris 1903 | 19 x 28 cm | relié
190589963Hetzel | Paris 1905 | 18.50 x 28 cm | relié
187688004Paris, J. Hetzel, 1876-1878, in-8, , Cartonnage éditeur polychrome [Lenègre], Volume double. Cartonnage "A la bannière" type 2, vert et pourpre. Jauzac, 185. Frottements, petites rousseurs. Couverture rigide
187288257Paris, J. Hetzel, 1872, in-8, , Cartonnage éditeur vert, or et noir [Magnier], Première édition grand in-8 illustrée. Volume simple. Cartonnage "Aux bouquets de roses simple". Légers frottements, rousseurs, réparation d'une déchirure au titre. Jauzac, 82. Couverture rigide
190383867Paris: Hetzel 1903. Fine. Hetzel Paris 1903 18 x 28 cm cartonnage de l'éditeur Illustrated edition with 154 drawings by Férat engraved by Barbant. Publisher's Hetzel binding ""au dos à l'ancre"" in full red percale second cover Engel type ""i"" as indicated by Jauzac original blue endpapers all edges gilt. Volume slightly warped a discoloration stain at upper right corner of lower board approximately 5x4cm as well as some light scratches at lower margin one corner of upper board very slightly bumped. The novel forms a sequel to Vingt mille lieues sous les mers as well as to Les Enfants du capitaine Grant to which it is connected by narrative elements. Hetzel unknown
190588569Paris: Hetzel 1905. Fine. Hetzel Paris s. d. 1905-1910 18.50 x 28 cm reliure de l'éditeur New edition illustrated with drawings by de Neuville and Benett. Publishers gilt-pictorial cloth binding known as à un éléphant titre dans léventail with Engels signature at the foot of the front cover plaque spine featuring a lighthouse rear cover of type i as defined by Jauzac all edges gilt. Headcaps very slightly compressed faint trace of a removed label to the verso of the front board. A handsome copy. Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours is an adventure novel. It tells the story of an English gentleman Phileas Fogg who wagers he can travel around the world_ Hetzel hardcover
1900007284UK: Sampson Low 1900. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. The Will of An Eccentric by Jules Verne First Edition Sampson Lowe 1900. London. Bookplate to front pastedown. No inscriptions contents clean throughout. Fold out section still present and no loose or damaged pages. Original first state red covers are near fine. No rubbing to gilt and no toning to spine. "The Will of an Eccentric" is a novel by Jules Verne first published in French in 1899. The story follows the journey of a group of characters who have been named in the will of the eccentric millionaire William J. Hypperbone. Hypperbone's last will and testament contains a series of clues that the group must solve in order to inherit his vast fortune. As they embark on a treasure hunt across the globe the characters encounter a range of challenges and obstacles including hidden passages secret codes and dangerous adversaries. Along the way they learn important lessons about greed friendship and the true meaning of wealth. The novel is a classic example of Verne's trademark adventure and imagination with a twist of mystery and suspense thrown in. <br/> <br/> Sampson Low hardcover
1914VERNEJUL027583Sampson Low Marston London. 1914. First U.K. edition. Translated by Cranstoun Metcalf. Octavo. 317 pages. Illustrations by Georges Roux. Striking pictorial cloth depicting a curious flying machine with bat-like wings. Robur the Conqueror seeks world domination. Faint stain to top edge which has bled down to the extremity of the upper margins of a few pages. Small puncture to fore-edge of text block. Outer edge of lower cover lightly affected by damp. Very good indeed. Sampson Low, Marston, London. hardcover
