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65160New York: Scribner's & Sons 1881. Science Fiction Adventure FIRST US EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavos 19 x 14 x 7cm pp.viii; 262; 12 pp.viii; 246; 10. With a total of 96 engraved plates by Benett including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles and black/gilt decoration to spines and uppers. No inscriptions joints intact contents mostly clean marginal stain to pp.17/18 vol.II spotting to eps. cloth a little rubbed spines toned. A very good set. A feast of steam-powered elephants and revenge set in India ten years after the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857. Both volumes are illustrated throughout with a multitude of atmospheric or demented depending on your perspective engravings depicting the adventures of our somewhat bloodthirsty heroes as they criss-cross post-mutiny India for the most part travelling inside a giant steam car pulled by a locomotive cast into the shape of a massive elephant. From any other author this would sound strange but coming from the man who regularly fires his protagonists into space or sinks them beneath the waves it's clearly all in a day's work. New York: Scribner's & Sons, 1881 unknown
189786869Hetzel | Paris s. d. [1903-1904] | 18 x 28.20 cm | relié
alb93dcc3684d895117Vern Jules. Captain Grants children. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Vern Zhyul. Deti kapitana Granta. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).With 168 Rio images engraved by Pannemaker. 4th edition. SPb. A.S.Suvorin 1898. 4th n.a. + 760 + 111 pages 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. SKUalb93dcc3684d895117
albf6b0da4a21c4be46Verne Jules. The bequest of the beggar. An extraordinary journey In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Vern Zhyul. Zaveshchanie chudaka. Neobyknovennoe puteshestvie Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).With 34 drawings by Georges Roux and a map of the North-American States of St. Petersburg: Edition by A.S. Suvorin Novoye Vremya 1914. VI 2 490 p. 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. SKUalbf6b0da4a21c4be46
albc7b084bd5c2e3d22Verne Jules: The Adventures of Captain Gatteras. An Extraordinary Journey. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Vern Zhyul. Priklyucheniya kapitan Gatterasa. Neobyknovennoe puteshestvie. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).In two parts. With 252 drawings. Edition 3 SPb.: A.S. Suvorins 1899 Edition 4 580 Ic. Book in case. The Journey and Adventures of Captain Gatteras Jules Vernes science fiction and adventure novel. The book was written in 1866 and tells the story of the expedition to the North Pole led by Captain Gatteras. 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. SKUalbc7b084bd5c2e3d22
1875106926James R. Osgood Boston 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Verne Jules. DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT and other Stories. With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" appeared in a periodical in 1851 his second story "Master Zacharius" 1854 his fourth and "A Winter amid the Ice" 1855 his fifth; "Dr. Ox's Experiment" itself did not appear until 1872. Also included is "Ascent of Mont Blanc" by his brother Paul Verne. Osgood had published the first edition in English in mid-1874 in a small unillustrated volume. William F. Gill of Boston published the first American somewhat- illustrated edition dated 1874 under the title FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS. Then this copiously-illustrated Osgood edition came out in mid 1875 priced at a hefty $3.00. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen from the balloon in "A Drama in the Air." This copy is in terra-cotta cloth others are in green -- no priority. It is an extremely bright and excellent copy slight wear at the top of the spine missing front free endpapert endpaper. Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16. FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION / SUPERNATURAL CODE:10549. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. James R. Osgood, Boston hardcover books
146910London: Sampson Low Marston & Company nd. Rear publisher's list dated 1893. New and cheaper edition". Hardcover. Good. 172 134 3 2-30 2 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece and 18 other b&w plates. Grey cloth with gold print brown black and gold impressing. Some marks and a bit of discolouration to cloth. Red mark on lower spine is the most noticeable. Small label front pastedown. Some spots to text block edges esp. in rear advertising pages as well as to title page. Larger spot on rear of plate facing p. 172. Spots on bottom margins pp. 124-6. Small chip at bottom of rear free endpaper. Small tear in top of plate facing p. 151. Ink inscription from 1894 on verso of front free endpaper. Mylar wrap removed for photos. <br/><br/>Scarce Jules Verne novel set in Canada of all places complete with wild Indians musket fire and Sir John Colborne. Illustrator Georges Tiret-Bognet was a French painter and author who illustrated many works by Jules Verne. Myers 19. Taves & Michaluk V036. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover
1875106926James R. Osgood Boston 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Verne Jules. DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT and other Stories. With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" appeared in a periodical in 1851 his second story "Master Zacharius" 1854 his fourth and "A Winter amid the Ice" 1855 his fifth; "Dr. Ox's Experiment" itself did not appear until 1872. Also included is "Ascent of Mont Blanc" by his brother Paul Verne. Osgood had published the first edition in English in mid-1874 in a small unillustrated volume. William F. Gill of Boston published the first American somewhat- illustrated edition dated 1874 under the title FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS. Then this copiously-illustrated Osgood edition came out in mid 1875 priced at a hefty $3.00. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen from the balloon in "A Drama in the Air." This copy is in terra-cotta cloth others are in green -- no priority. It is an extremely bright and excellent copy slight wear at the top of the spine missing front free endpapert endpaper. Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16. FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION / SUPERNATURAL CODE:10549. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. James R. Osgood, Boston hardcover
188409916London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1884. First Edition. Octavo 223 pages 32 pages of ads dated Oct. 1886; publisher's pictorial green cloth printed in black and gilt. First UK edition of the first volume of Keraban the Inflexible. Yellow end papers front inner hinge with hairline crack. Illustrated. Internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Light wear at extremities. Very good. Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle unknown
1891146897New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1891. First American Edition and first in English. Hardcover. Good. iv 377 p. interspersed with plates. 22 cm. Frontispiece and 81 other full page plates as well as a smaller vignette on p. iv. Blue cloth with black and gold impresing. Front features Mrs. Branican en route to the ship Dolly's Hope while spine shows the bell of the shipwrecked Franklin. Mylar wrap removed for photo. Corners and spine ends worn. Light shelf wear on lower edges. Some light soiling. A couple of signatures jutting out slightly. Inscriptions on front free endpaper. Paper browning. Small mark rear of frontispiece. Pages neat and clean. <br/><br/>Fairly scarce Verne adventure novel with a female protagonist. When her husband John goes to sea and she loses her only child Wat San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers she discovers her husband's ship was lost at sea and she is heir to a substantial fortune. Refusing to believe her husband is dead Dolly uses her extensive resources to discover the whereabouts of her husband's ship the Franklin. Her search leads her to Australia where her adventures continue into the interior at Alice Springs. Myers 41. Taves and Michaluk V038. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover
192429752New York:: G. Howard Watt 1924. First American edition. publishers cloth with printed paper label in dust jacket. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper; else a fine copy in a bright fresh jacket with some very slight soiling. A very uncommon book in dust jacket. 8vo. G. Howard Watt, hardcover
1852603080Philadelphia: John Sartain & Co 1852. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Eight consecutive monthly issues bound together in one volume: Vol. 10 January – June 1852; Vol. 11 July – August 1852. Octavo. iv 516; 208pp. Illustrated with engraved plates including several mezzotint plates. Bound in contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper over boards. The binding is worn scuffed and torn at the spine one mezzotint plate neatly detached else good overall with the usual intermittent toning and foxing and moderate dampstaining at the front and fore-edge margin. The May issue includes “A Voyage in a Balloon†by Jules Verne translated from the French by Anne T. Wilbur: the first English translation of a story by Verne. Also included in the July and August issues is “The Iron Horse†and “A Poet Buying a Farm†which were two sections from the yet unpublished Walden by Henry David Thoreau. A scarce volume containing the final eight issues of this leading American literary magazine that ceased publication with the August 1852 issue. John Sartain & Co hardcover
1877015039Scribner Armstrong & Company 1877. Book. Near Fine Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Plus Copy in Green Decorative Cloth First Edition 1877 A Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Very Rare in this Condition.Beautiful Copy. Scribner, Armstrong & Company Hardcover
1875014613Scribner Armstrong & Company 1875. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gorgeous Fine Copy In Green Decorative Boards First American Edition 1875 on Title-Page Beautiful Copy Very Rare In this Condition. Scribner, Armstrong & Company Hardcover books
mon0000070653Scholastic. Unknown Binding. Good. 0.7000 in x 6.8000 in x 4.0000 in. Scholastic unknown
187610711New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. Good. 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with black and gilt embossment is frayed at corners and spine caps with light wear to extremities and modest loss to the spine gilding but clean bright and in good condition. Boards are straight. Spine is slightly cocked. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned with light signs of handling but overall clean and very good. Illustrated in b&w. . . Scribner, Armstrong, & Co hardcover
187510710New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. Very Good. 1875. First American Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with black and gilt embossment is frayed at bottom corners with light wear to extremities and modest loss to the spine gilding but clean bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned with light signs of handling but overall clean and very good. Illustrated in b&w. . . Scribner, Armstrong, & Co hardcover
193336478Musee De L'Orangerie / Editions Des Musees Nationaux. As New. 1933. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Interior text is clean tight and unmarked; pages are intact and tight to the spine. Text in French. 120 pages. 245 works catalogued; 18 black and white illustrations. Exhibition Catalog Musee de l'Orangerie Paris 1933. Softcover paper wraps 103 pp. 14 pp. Black and white plates 3 pp. Advertisements and 34 pp. Preface. French Language Text. Rare copy of the 1933 catalog for the large retrospective exhibition of the 19th century French Romantic painter Theodore Chasseriau. The catalog contains important documentation for the 245 paintings drawings and engravings that were featured in the exhibition as well as B&W illustrative plates for 18 works. In addition there is a good preface discussing Chasseriau's career his influences and his impact on later artists such as Puvis de Chavannes. -- with a bonus offer-- . Musee De L'Orangerie / Editions Des Musees Nationaux paperback
200235152United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. 2002. Paperback. 0715630865 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - 426 pages; 5 x 8 inches -- Casting a visionary eye over the 18th century Jules Verne traces navigation to the first astronomers and cartographers in this monumental history of early expeditions. Assessing the influence of Captain Cook and his predecessors in the first part of the book he then introduces the reader to the remarkable efforts of French navigators across the globe in a gripping narrative. -- with a bonus offer-- . Duckworth Pub paperback
21488New York: Grosset & Dunlap. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 500 pages. Black and white plate of nautical scene as frontispiece referencing quote from book and citing page in text; lovely green and sepia nautical graphic serves as lining to front and back covers; publication date not given. -- with a bonus offer--; . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1875105491875. With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled. First American fully-illustrated edition from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" appeared in a periodical in 1851 his second story "Master Zacharius" 1854 his fourth and "A Winter amid the Ice" 1855 his fifth; "Dr. Ox's Experiment" itself did not appear until 1872. Also included is "Ascent of Mont Blanc" by his brother Paul Verne. Osgood had published the first edition in English in mid-1874 in a small unillustrated volume. William F. Gill of Boston published the first American somewhat- illustrated edition dated 1874 under the title FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS. Then this copiously-illustrated Osgood edition came out in mid-1875 priced at a hefty $3.00. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen from the balloon in "A Drama in the Air." This copy is in terra-cotta cloth others are in green -- no priority. It is an unusually bright very nearly fine copy the slightest hint of wear at the top of the spine magazine illustration tipped to the front endpaper. Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1883106061883. Translated from the French by Mary de Hauteville. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. 32 pp ads dated Nov 1882. Original ochre cloth pictorially decorated in brown black and green. First British Edition and first edition in English. This tale is a bit different from many of Verne's -- a love story sited in Scotland though as always with its share of scientific imponderables 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. The front cover shows Helena and Oliver with eyes fixed upon one another while the crowd behind them has all eyes fixed upon "the green ray." This British edition was published in September 1883 -- a month before George Munro's pirated version in his wrappered "Seaside Library"; there was no American hardbound edition of this Verne tale until 1965. In our experience THE GREEN RAY is one of the very few toughest UK first editions of Jules Verne to find today: why we do not know but several others that followed THE GREEN RAY are close in scarcity KERABAN THE INFLEXIBLE of 1884 MATHIAS SANDORF of 1886 A LOTTERY TICKET of 1886 THE CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS of 1887 NORTH AGAINST SOUTH of 1887 THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE of 1890 A FAMILY WITHOUT A NAME of 1890 and FOUNDLING MICK of 1895. This copy is in ochre cloth; the one other color we have seen is mauve-grey -- both with the same pictorial design mauve-grey we have seen both with and without gilt pages edges; ochre we have seen only without as here. The ad catalogue in this copy is dated November 1882 -- almost a year before publication -- which is the earliest GREEN RAY ad catalogue we have seen the others being Sept 1883 and Oct 1884. This is a very good copy quite attractive externally but recased within its original binding with stiffened spine and with black tape along the original endpapers' hinges; there is an 1899 school prize inscription on the front endpaper verso. Taves & Michaluk V023; Myers 31. unknown books
188193571881. in bright red cloth Together two volumes. Translated from the French by Miss Agnes D. Kingston. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1881. 8 pp undated ads in each volume. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled. First American hardbound edition of this tale taking place in India; to quote the synopsis provided by Scribner's at the time as cited in T&M Account of a journey through northern India in 1867 by four Englishmen in search of hunting and adventure; they travel over ground made memorable by the Indian mutiny of which many thrilling episodes are recalled and described; the famous Nana Sahib figures considerably in the work a renewed effort having been made at that time by the English government to capture him; the search for him and his death are described; the great feature of this story is the original manner in which the characters travel their equipage consisting of a complete house on wheels drawn by a huge traction engine having the form of an elephant. THE DEMON OF CAWNPORE has on its front cover an illustration of the "steam elephant" pulling the passenger car; TIGERS AND TRAITORS shows Maucler and Captain Hood taking refuge inside a tiger cage as tigers circle around them. George Munro published the first unillustrated edition in English of Part I in August 1880 and Part II in January 1881 in his self-wrappered "Seaside Library." Sampson Low published the first illustrated edition of Part I in December 1880 followed by Part II in April 1881. And Part I of this Scribner edition was published in February 1881 followed by Part II in May 1881. These two volumes are in bright red cloth; we have also seen them in blue cloth and more typically in grey terra-cotta or brown cloth no priority. Both volumes have expert repairs at the spine ends but otherwise are in bright very good-plus condition minor soil on one rear cover. Quite uncommon in the bright red cloth. Taves & Michaluk V021; Myers 46. unknown books
1875105491875. With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled.<br/> <br/> First American fully-illustrated edition from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" appeared in a periodical in 1851 his second story "Master Zacharius" 1854 his fourth and "A Winter amid the Ice" 1855 his fifth; "Dr. Ox's Experiment" itself did not appear until 1872. Also included is "Ascent of Mont Blanc" by his brother Paul Verne. Osgood had published the first edition in English in mid-1874 in a small unillustrated volume. William F. Gill of Boston published the first American somewhat- illustrated edition dated 1874 under the title FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS. Then this copiously-illustrated Osgood edition came out in mid-1875 priced at a hefty $3.00. The front cover shows Master Zacharius raising the trap door in the floor of his workshop and the spine shows the earthbound "madman" who had fallen from the balloon in "A Drama in the Air." This copy is in terra-cotta cloth others are in green or blue -- no priority. It is an unusually bright very nearly fine copy the slightest hint of wear at the top of the spine magazine illustration tipped to the front endpaper. Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16. unknown
186929831New York: D. Appleton and Company 1869 First American Edition and First in the English language in gilt-stamped and decorated blue pebbled cloth blind-ruled panels 1st issue with 2-page New Publications listing with 8 titles boards a little worn & soiled with 1 1/2-inch tear to cloth along one spine extremity at fold a few other spots of separation along same spine edge light wear with slight fraying at ends & corners otherwise hinges tight yellow endpapers clean & bright contents unfoxed some smudges early page margins former owner autograph and date of Dec 1869 writ large & vertically over text to page 44 small namestamp top page 51 all illustrations present including frontispiece a little crimped at fold with tissue guard an overall Very Good copy of the first title of Verne's to appear in Englsih quite scarce as such; 8vo; vi 345pp 12pp ads; 5 internal illus plates; frontispiece. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
