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187692073Paris: Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel 1876. Fine. Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel Paris 1876 11.5 x 18.2 cm 2 volumes reliés Rare first edition. The first volume dated 4 August 1876 followed by the second volume published on 6 November with Un drame au Mexique bound in. All first editionswere published in 18° format. Half brown shagreen bindings spines with four raised bands ruled in black and framed in black with with central gilt fleurons marbled paper boards paste-down endpapers and flyleaves of hand-marbled paper sprinkled edges contemporary bindings. A handsome first edition copy of this celebrated Siberian adventure attractively bound in contemporary bindings. This first appearance of the text in book form was Jules Verne's preferred format as Jauzac notes instead of the more famous gilded publisher's bindings: ""Verne cared little it seems for the outward appearance of his works. Likewise illustration added to the text struck him as inessential. He would in fact give friends copies of the unillustrated 18° first edition like this copy rather than the large 8° volumes - admittedly more expensive! Without being able to state it as fact it is probable that the author kept in his library only these small 18° editions of his Voyages extraordinaires which he would always count by the volume two for a work in two parts and took pride in announcing a total of over a hundred volumes"". It was with the first edition of Michel Strogoff that Jules Verne began earning the considerable sum of 50 centimes per copy for volumes in this 18° format. The novel narrowly escaped Hetzel's suggestions that Verne introduce an additional character ""un occuliste attaché aux pas du héros s'obstinant à le guérir ou un ""petit chenapan héroïque"" accompagné d'un chien qu'il offrirait à l'aveugle"" Embs et Mellot Le Guide Jules Verne. Paradoxically however it was the publisher who was responsible for the novel bearing the resounding title ""Michel Strogoff"" rather than ""Le Courrier du czar"". Jauzac n° 10 p. 207. Bottin p. 69. Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel hardcover
1891146914New York: John W. Lovell Company nd. 1891. Hardcover. Good. 172 iv 134 p. 19 cm. Unillustrated. Brown cloth with gold impressing. Mylar wrap removed for photos. Corners and spine ends bumped some shelf wear to edges a few stains to covers esp. large stain on lower front. Another stain on lower edge of text block. Some chips and a tear to front endpapers and front hinge starting to crack internally. Tear at bottom of a rear endpaper and edge of p. 155. Small stains to lower margins from about p. 260 to p. 40. Pages browning. Faint mark on first title. <br/><br/>Scarce Jules Verne novel set in Canada of all places complete with wild Indians musket fire and Sir John Colborne. Some readers may recognize John W. Lovell 1851-1932 as a Canadian publisher and he was indeed born in Montreal in 1851. His father John Lovell Sr. 1810-93 was a Canadian publisher born in Ireland. John W. who had experience operating his father's large printing plant moved to Rouse's Point New York in 1873 to run a printing plant there. After marrying a local girl in 1876 he became an American citizen and moved to New York City. There he published a wide variety of books and took advantage of the lack of international copyright laws to print popular titles of the day including those of Dickens as well as Verne. As a born Canadian it's not surprising he would print this story set in his native land. According to the title page he was located at 150 Worth Street cor. Meeting Place at time of publication which places this book in 1891 although John W. published earlier paperback versions in 1889 and 1890. Myers 19. Taves & Michaluk V036. John W. Lovell Company hardcover
186792075Paris: Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel 1867. Fine. A rare true first edition of the first Verne novel adapted for the screen Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel Paris 1867-1868 11.5 x 18.2 cm 3 volumes reliés Rare first edition. First volume published on 6 May 1867 the second on 27 July and the third the next year 28 January 1868. All of 18° format are first editions of Verne's novels. Contemporary brown half shagreen bindings spines with four raised bands ruled in black and decorated with double black panels featuring central gilt floral tools marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns two upper corners slightly bumped speckled edges contemporary bindings. A handsome copy attractively housed in its contemporary bindings. In Search of the Castaways is the very first Verne novel to be adapted for the cinema. predating even Méliès's A Trip to the Moon. This Pathé adaptation 1901 is one of the seven films inspired by his work to be made during his lifetime. This first appearance of the text in book form was Jules Verne's preferred format as Jauzac notes instead of the more famous gilded publisher's bindings: ""Verne cared little it seems for the outward appearance of his works. Likewise illustration added to the text struck him as inessential. He would in fact give friends copies of the unillustrated 18° first edition like this copy rather than the large 8° volumes - admittedly more expensive! Without being able to state it as fact it is probable that the author kept in his library only these small 18° editions of his Voyages extraordinaires which he would always count by the volume two for a work in two parts and took pride in announcing a total of over a hundred volumes"". Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel hardcover
197749955DIOGENES 1977. 1. softcover. Kurier des Zaren Der Michael Strogoff DETEBE DIOGENES paperback
186592074Paris: Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel 1865. Fine. The true first edition of the iconic lunar voyage and pioneer of the space age Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel Paris 1865 11.5 x 18.2 cm relié Rare first edition. This first appearance of the text in book form was Jules Verne's preferred format as Jauzac notes instead of the more famous gilded publisher's bindings. Contemporary brown half shagreen binding spine with four raised bands ruled in black and decorated with double black panel compartments featuring central gilt floral tools marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers speckled edges a few small abrasions to one edge contemporary binding. A small black ink stain to the lower right margin of the opening leaves. A handsome first edition copy attractively housed in a contemporary binding. This founding novel is considered one of if not the most famous early published science fiction story about lunar exploration. The novel inaugurates a rigorously scientific approach to fiction narrating expeditions to our satellite. As early as 1875 From the Earth to the Moon was adapted as an operetta by the undisputed master of the genre Jacques Offenbach. H. G. Wells's treatment of lunar travel The First Men in the Moon 1901 still owes a considerable debt to Verne even if the British author's conspicuously unscientific traits have often been noted: cavorite his anti-gravitational substance is a fiction that serves merely as one device that allowed him to focus on what is discovered upon the Moon itself rather than the journey. At the dawn of the century Méliès drew in part on Verne's novel for the very first fiction film in the history of cinema the celebrated A Trip to the Moon. After this pioneer of the seventh art it was a master of the ninth who built the myth of his character Tintin upon Verne's own heroes devoting two albums to the subject of Lunar travel: Destination Moon concerned with the preparations for the voyage as in Verne's first volume and Explorers on the Moon narrating the journey through space as in Around the Moon. Though the lunar voyage had been imagined since Dante Cyrano de Bergerac and a host of illustrious writers in earlier centuries From the Earth to the Moon created a new realist genre that proved remarkably prophetic of the space exploration of the 1960s: ""The first attempt to reach the moon by truly scientific means in modern times was made in Jules Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon De la Terre à la Lune published in 1865. The book contains some descriptions that amazingly parallel twentieth-century actual moon flights. Just like astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders of the historic Apollo 8 flight of 1968 the first men to orbit around the moon Jules Verne's moon travelers Impey Barbicane the president of the Gun Club of Baltimore his adversary Captain Nicholl and the French journal-list Michel Ardan an anagram for Verne's friend Nadar took off from Florida and like the real astronauts they landed on return in the ocean. The elaborate preparations for the moon journey closely resemble the actual start of the rockets of today although Verne uses instead of a rocket a gun 900 feet in length."" Franz Rottensteiner The Science Fiction Book. It is precisely this proximity to the reality of lunar travel that makes the novel an essential text and the origin of many a prestigious vocation: the Russians Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Sergei Korolev the American Robert Goddard and Germans Hermann Oberth and Wernher von Braun all traced the origins of their passion to Verne's novels. Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong likewise counted them among their earliest inspirations. In 1999 the European astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré carried aboard the Mir space station a copy of From the Earth to the Moon which completed three thousand orbits of the Earth at his side. Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel hardcover
198331767EDITO-SERVICE 1983. 1. hardcover. Originaleldono: 84-02-01595-6! EDITO-SERVICE hardcover
19782873BASTEI 1978. 1. softcover. 31-29 Maloftege! DIE BERÜHMTESTEN ABENTEUER IN PACKENDEN BILDERN NACHERZÄHLT BASTEI paperback
19671208DIOGENES 1967. 1. hardcover. Sirmkovrilo! Maloftege! KLASSISCHE ABENTEUER DIOGENES hardcover
187321091Boston: and Co 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. First fully illustrated US edition. xvi 315pp. Salmon cloth stamped in gold and black bevelled edges dark brown endpapers all edges gilt. With fifty-four plates and an engraved illustration in the text by A. de Neuville and L. Benett and a small drawing by Verne. Introduction by Adrien Marx. Translated by George M. Towle. In his article in the July/August 1996 issue of Firsts Arthur B. Edwards notes that ". there is a fully illustrated Osgood octavo edition published at the end of November 1873 taken from the British sheets. This is titled Around the World in Eighty Days and is very scarce. It seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition p. 42." Cloth is worn at spine ends spine panel faded hinges a bit tender neatly penned inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1873. A very good copy. Barron Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-165. Gallagher Mistichelli and Van Eerde A30. Taves and Michaluk V011. ; Octavo. and Co hardcover
18836446London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. First edition in English later issue with 32 page publisher's catalogue dated September 1883 at rear first was November 1882. A Near Fine copy. Octavo 7 x 4 3/4 in; 178 x 121 mm. viii 312 32 publisher's catalog pp. Frontispiece title vignette and forty-three black and white plates included in pagination by L. Benett reprinted from the first French edition one map. Bound in publishers ochre cloth front cover pictorially decorated in red and black title lettered in gilt rear cover decoratively bordered in blind spine pictorially decorated in red and black and lettered in gilt blue-gray floral endpapers. The mildest of rubbing to the extremities internally immaculate.<br /> <br /> Inspired by the optical phenomenon-a split second flash of green light at the end of a sunrise or sunset-Jules Vernes' book is a surprising love story. Here the light plays a pivotal role in the narrative: Helena Campbell refuses to marry until she has seen the Grey Ray which according to Scottish legend allows you to see into your own heart and read the true feelings of others. The strange and delightful novel was first published in September 1883 a month before George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition.<br /> <br /> Taves & Michaluk V023. Myers 31. Near Fine. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington unknown
1875L1315<p>3 volumes. <em>Dropped From The Clouds</em>: viii-9-3102 ad pages with frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. <em>Abandoned:</em> viii3048 ad pages with frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. <em>The Secret of the Island</em>: viii2991 ad pages with frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations. Small octavo 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in original polisher's cloth with beveled terra cotta cloth boards with an bright unfaded gilt scene to the front and gilt motifs to spine. <em>Dropped From The Clouds</em> is in green cloth; <em>Abandoned </em>bound in blue cloth; <em>The Secret of the Island bound</em> in original brown cloth. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Gallagher Mistichelli Eerde A33 First American editions.<br /><br /><em>The Mysterious Island </em>French: <em>L'Île mystérieuse</em> is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1875. The original edition published by Hetzel contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous <em>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas</em> 1870 and <em>In Search of the Castaways </em>1867–68 though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication was titled <em>Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson</em> seen as indicating the influence of the novels <em>Robinson Crusoe </em>and <em>The Swiss Family Robinson</em>. Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel <em>Godfrey Morgan</em> French: <em>L'École des Robinsons</em> 1882 The chronology of<em> The Mysterious Island</em> is completely incompatible with that of the original <em>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</em> whose plot begins in 1866 while <em>The Mysterious Island</em> begins during the American Civil War yet is supposed to happen some years after "<em>Twenty Thousand Leagues</em>".<br /><br />In the United States the first English printing began in Scribner's Monthly April 1874 as a serial. In September 1875 Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle published the first British edition of <em>Mysterious Island </em>in three volumes entitled <em>Dropped from the Clouds</em> <em>The Abandoned</em> and <em>The Secret of the Island </em>195000 words. In November 1875 Scribner's published the American edition of these volumes from the English plates of Sampson Low. The purported translator W. H. G. Kingston was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories who had fallen on hard times in the 1870s due to business failures and so he hired out to Sampson Low as the translator for these volumes. However it is now known that the translator of <em>Mysterious Island</em> and his other Verne novels was actually his wife Agnes Kinloch Kingston who had studied on the continent in her youth. The Kingston translation changes the names of the hero from "Smith" to "Harding"; "Smith" is a very common name in the UK and would have been associated at that time with the lower classes. In addition many technical passages were abridged or omitted and the anti-imperialist sentiments of the dying Captain Nemo were purged so as not to offend English readers. This became the standard translation for more than a century. In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation 175000 words appeared first in the columns of <em>The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia</em> and subsequently as an <em>Evening Telegraph</em> Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. In the 20th century two more abridged translations appeared: the Fitzroy Edition Associated Booksellers 1959 abridged by I. O. Evans 90000 words and Mysterious Island Bantam 1970 abridged by Lowell Bair 90000 words.<br /><br /><strong>Condition: </strong>Recased with original end pages with some archival repairs to spine ends some occasional foxing soiling and fingering else a very good sharp set. is in green cloth; Abandoned bound in blue cloth; The Secret of the Island bound in original brown cloth. Gallagher Mistichelli Eerde A33 First American editions.<br /><br /><br /></p> Scribner, Armstrong and Company hardcover
20133261<p>Leatherette Bound. Complete and Unabridged. Classic Library</p> World Publications Group, Inc. hardcover
1869160128001Madrid: Establecimiento Tipografico de Tomas Rey y Compania 1869. First Edition. Very Good. Riou; Hildibrand. First edition in Spanish and the earliest edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea known in book form preceding the French and English editions. Two parts in one volume 247 287 pp. 2 page index with illustrations by Riou and Hildibrand. Brown leather spine over brown pebbled cloth floral patterned end papers. Rubbing soiling and light chipping to cloth. Several stains to fore edge. Pages toned with foxing and occasional staining. One page toward rear is torn missing the bottom quarter. Rear hinge is exposed though binding is intact. An exceptionally rare copy of Verne's science fiction masterpiece. Establecimiento Tipografico de Tomas Rey y Compania unknown
1875146148New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co 1875-1876. First editions in English of each volume in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island trilogy. Octavo three volumes in the original publisher's pictorial cloth all edges gilt illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispieces. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Each volume is in very good condition. A sharp set. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction" French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1870 and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875 Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film television and radio broadcast. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co hardcover
18762407038New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co 1876. first. hardcover. very good. First combined edition of all three volumes with illustrations. Book in very good condition some wear and rubbing to edges and covers cover cloth laid on spine newer end papers. Housed in supplied custom-made slipcase. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co unknown
198431683PAWLAK MANFRED 1984. 1. softcover. Entdeckung der Erde Die PAWLAK, MANFRED paperback
198431529PAWLAK MANFRED 1984. 1. softcover. Kinder des Kapitän Grant Die PAWLAK, MANFRED paperback
189675196Paris: Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie 1896. Fine. Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie Paris 1896 18 x 28.50 cm relié New edition illustrated with drawings by J. Ferrat including several polychrome plates printed by Belin Frères and appearing here for the first time. Catalogue D at the end. Publisher's ""golden globe"" binding signed Engel type 1 according to Jauzac front board plate by Blanchelande spine with lighthouse back board Engel type ""h"". Les Indes noires deals with coal mining in India. Le Chancellor is an adventure novel presented as the Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon and tells the epic of the survivors of the English ship the Chancellor. Gilt on spine and front board slightly faded. Headcaps and joints skillfully restored. Very fine original blue endpapers the first restored at upper left corner. Scattered foxing more pronounced at beginning and end of volume as usual. Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie unknown
189585746Paris: J. Hetzel & Cie 1895. Fine. J. Hetzel & Cie Paris 1895 18 x 28 cm relié New illustrated edition with 111 drawings by De Neuville and Riou engraved by Panemaker. Six hors-texte plates in polychrome or monochrome. 2 color plates. HF catalogue at rear with some foxing. Publisher's ""portrait collé"" binding in polychrome and gilt with sepia vignette portrait of Jules Verne. Plate signed Paul Souze. A. Lenègre binder. Spine with lighthouse motif. Rear board of Lenègre type e. Vingt mille lieues sous les mers was conceived following an epistolary suggestion from George Sand friend of Hetzel who had greatly appreciated Cinq semaines en ballon and Voyage au centre de la Terre. This legendary title from the novelist's work would generate numerous film adaptations the first by Méliès in 1907 and the most famous in 1954 by Richard Fleisher. An exceptionally fresh copy of one of Jules Verne's masterpieces. J. Hetzel & Cie unknown
186923.0114Madrid: Establecimiento Tipográfico de Tomás Rey y Compañía 1869. 1ª ed. Contemporary quarter leather with raised bands. 16x25.5. Illustrations by Édouard Riou Obras and Alphonse de Neuville engraved by Hildebrand. The binding is simple but attractive the spine slightly rubbed but entirely sound. The boards are rather more rubbed and the corners are bruised with one missing. The edition is on low quality paper and appears to have been well read. We have corrected the dog earing in the lower corner of the first eight leaves but this has weakened some of the corners. There are quite accomplished pencil sketches on three pages of text and the back end paper. One of the two maps has two ink lines drawn across the Atlantic; two tears across pp. 227/228 and 229/230 have been rather crudely repaired but the pages are complete. Both free endpapers are missing. We have seen photographs of a copy that as well as the engraved title page and the typographic title page both present in our copy conserved what appears to be the original printed wrapper; this is not present in this copy. No separate title page appears to have been issued for the second part. Otherwise there are occasional minor marks and stains light foxing towards the end of the book. We have attached a large numer of photos to give the clearest possible idea of the actual condition of the copy. Given that the book suffers from the dreaded trinity of bad paper a popular novel and attractive to children this is probably about as good a copy as one is likely to find. Further images are available on our website or on request Establecimiento Tipográfico de Tomás Rey y Compañía hardcover
35601London Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1883. 8vo. 312pp 32pp. advertisemnts dated November 1882. Original mustard-coloured pictorial cloth decorated in brown green and gilt blue floral endpapers. Frontispiece title page vignette and 43 full-page illustrations. A couple of trivial internal marks and two early instiutional blind-stamps. A very good copy. First edition in English. With all first edition points inluding the earliest state of advertisemnts. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. hardcover
187309876Boston: James R. Osgood 1873. Octavo 315 pages; publisher's pictorial green cloth decorated in black and gilt; brown coated end papers. First issue with matching dates on copyright and title pages; translated by Geo. M. Towle. Illustrated in black and white; a very good straight tight copy. Small loss at head of front hinge; inner hinges are intact. Very light spotting on frontis and title page but not extending into text - internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Custom cloth-covered slipcase. James R. Osgood unknown
1886140948433London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1886. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition first printing of Jules Verne's adventure story inspired by the author's yacht trip from Tangiers to Malta. viii 192 199 1 32 pp. with advertising list at rear dated October 1886. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings after drawings by Leon Benett Verne's most important illustrator. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over beveled boards with pictorial stamping in black white and gilt all edges gilt; variant binding with publisher's name stamped in smaller and neater type at tail of spine. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to covers strengthening to hinges and head of spine and school prize bookplate dated 1895 to front pastedown. Occasional foxing more pronounced on prelims. Penciled numbers to first page of each part. Myers 38 Taves & Michaluk V028.<br /> <br /> <p>An exceptionally fine copy of a very prettily designed book; Jules Verne was an international star and the novel was published in gift binding with a eye to the Christmas market. The book was advertised with a blurb from the Saturday Review: "Christmas without Jules Verne would be a sad time for many English boys." This copy was indeed gifted for Christmas several years later to a lucky schoolboy who had done well in English. By that time the novel had been published in Sampson Low's "Newer and Cheaper" editions. The superior first edition is scarce particularly in such nice shape. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington unknown
18731398566Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co 1873. First U.S. Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 3 303 pages plus 110 illustrations. In Good minus condition. Bound in full green cloth with black and gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Boards are cocked have moderate rubbing wear to extremities and surfaces light plus bumping and fraying to spine head/tail and fore corners minor soiling and stains and small dents to the head edges and front fore edge. Textblock has an ink inscription from a previous owner on the second front free end page a tear along the tail corner of page 3 a closed tear along the head edge of page 27 creasing along the head corner of page 91 illustration ". raid upon the cabbage-palms- page 115" is detached from the textblock and has small closed tears along the head/tail edges page 115-116 and illustration "a slaughter of kangaroos- page 119" are partially detached from textblock stains and foxing scattered throughout. Significant age toning and light plus soiling to edges. LC consignment. Shelved case 8.<br /> <br /> <br> <br> . This edition was preceded in America by the more scare Osgood edition. It is speculated that most of the Osgood copies were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. <br /> <br /> <br> <br> <br /> <br /> The Osgood edition contains a number of translation errors. George M. Smith subsequently reset the text and published the first American edition. As is usual of a Smith first edition this book has the correct translation of "Seas" instead of "Sea" and broken type for "The End" on page 303. 1398566. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Geo. M. Smith & Co hardcover
1869003261Appleton 1869 Bound in green cloth with gilt decorations 345 pp. plus 12 pp ads. Last two pages listing new Appleton publications with 8 titles.This the true first edition in English Ahearn. This copy with yellow endpapers and 6 illustrations. Spine extremities and tips with modest wear 3/4" split at front gutter tissue guard with tear at joint light foxing from endpaper through title page and rear endpaper with four small spots. One sig slightly proud. Otherwise contents fine. Old clipping for this title from an old bookseller's catalog laid in $25.00 Appleton hardcover
