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1889164628Boston: Lee and Shepard 1889. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi 1-271 272: blank 273-280: ads flyleaves at front and rear 50 illustrations by Leon Benett original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in white black and gold cream endpapers. Second U.S. illustrated edition. The first edition in English was an unauthorized edition published by Lee and Shepard and Dillingham in October 1879 with a title page dated 1880 as THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. It was quickly followed by an 1879 cheap pirated paperbound edition published in George Munro's "Seaside Library." An illustrated British edition was published by Sampson Low in 1880 and an authorized illustrated American edition was published by E. P. Dutton the same year although the latter has a title page dated 1881. This 1889 Lee and Shepard and Dillingham edition is a reissue of their 1879 edition with with the illustrations by Benett that first appeared in the Sampson Low and Dutton editions. Translation of LES TRIBULATIONS D'UN CHINOIS EN CHINE 1879. A farce set in China concerning a Chinese who plans his own assassination and then changes his mind. Minor science fiction element is escape to sea using watertight buoyant suits. Myers 55. Taves and Michaluk V020. A fine bright copy. #164628 Lee and Shepard unknown books
1978162163New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1978. Large octavo pp. i-ix x-xix xx 1 2-171 172: blank illustrations cloth-backed boards. First printing of this edition. Translated and annotated by Walter James Miller. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 1-93 and 2004 II-1180. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #162163 Thomas Y. Crowell unknown books
2005158869Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 2005. Octavo New edition. The first modern translation of LES CINQ CENTS MILLIONS DE LA BEGUM SUIVI DE LES REVOLTES DE LA "BOUNTY" 1879 an important but often neglected Jules Verne story. It is Verne's first cautionary novel a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation that provides an early depiction of modern technological societies one a utopia the other a dystopia dedicated to world domination and racial supremacy. This scholarly edition edited by Arthur B. Edwards includes notes and introduction by Peter Schulman a primary and selected secondary bibliography of Verne's literary works and a biography of Verne. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-155 and 2004 II-1175. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2251. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 763. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 9. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1136. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 153-56. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 21. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Reginald 14602. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #158869 Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1991Embry 163486Madison Books 1991. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Author's disclaimer sheet laid in Madison Books, 1991. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1900010737Saalfield 1900. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy.1900/1900 First Thus. Excellent Copy. Saalfield Hardcover books
1894010837Merriam Co. 1894. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition.Near Fine Copy1894. Very Clean Copy in Dark Green Decorative Boards. No Foxing. Beautiful Fresh Copy of a Very Scarce Book. Merriam Co. Hardcover books
189395153London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Rare first edition of Verne's Gothic mystery novel that likely inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. Octavo original illustrated cloth gilt titles to the spine and front panel top edge gilt pictorial endpapers engraved frontispiece illustrated with numerous engravings. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Verne's The Castle of the Carpathians centres on the story of Count Franz de Telek a visitor to the village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania who is inspired to visit the region after hearing that the town's villagers believe that the devil has come to inhabit its castle. The novel was likely the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Gothic horror novel Dracula published five years later in 1897 and featuring the character of Count Dracula also of Transylvania. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover books
1909012851Grant Richards 1909. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. School Tag on Front Paste Down. First Edition 1909 Fine Copy In Blue Decorative Boards With Comet Scene. Fresh Copy Quite Rare.Excellent Fresh Copy. Grant Richards Hardcover books
1909012882Grant Richards 1909. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine copy First Edition 1909 Sticker on Front Paste Down.Excellent Fresh Copy. Grant Richards Hardcover 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
1909136551909. Illustrated. London: Grant Richards 1909. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in ochre yellow and light blue. First British Edition and first edition in the English language. This is a tale of a meteor's close brush with Earth with the main events taking place in Virginia. The story had first appeared in a French daily journal in March-April 1908 -- three years after Verne's death. Despite the date 1909 on the title verso this book was actually published in November 1908. Though sited in America the book was not published in the United States. This is a handsome volume with one of the 24 Roux plates reproduced upon the decorative front cover. This copy is near-fine contemporary school prize label on the front paste-down light foxing throughout on this thick wove paper rear endpaper cracked. Taves & Michaluk V060; Myers 9. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1909106541909. Illustrated. London: Grant Richards 1909. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in ochre yellow and light blue. First British Edition and first edition in English. This is a tale of a meteor's close brush with Earth with the main events taking place in Virginia. The story had first appeared in a French daily journal in March-April 1908 -- three years after Verne's death. Despite the date 1909 on the title verso this book was actually published in November 1908. Though sited in America the book was not published in the United States. This is a handsome volume with one of the 24 Roux plates reproduced upon the decorative front cover. This copy is nearly fine front endpaper cracked one tiny nick in the spine head light foxing throughout on this thick wove paper. Taves & Michaluk V060; Myers 9. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1877105851877. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1877. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt all edges gilt. First British Edition of the tale also known as THE BLACK INDIES and as UNDERÂGROUND CITY. The unusual tale takes place deep in a Scottish mine in which a mysterious "goblin" appears to live. The peculiar wildness of Jules Verne's imagination shows with startling effect when he selects Scotland and its sober-minded people as scene and characters for his latest characteristic extravaganza. He describes a mine of fabulous wonders by and of superhuman powers and then he has a plot that would furnish plots for several exciting novels. from an early promotional piece cited in T&M The pirate publisher George Munro was the first to get out an edition THE BLACK INDIES in English in his triple-columned self-wrappered "Seaside Library" in the Spring of 1877. This first British edition came out in October of that year: "Pictured on the front cover is Jack Ryan kneeling on the twenty-sixth landing down the gloomy shaft. Harfang the bird owl is also shown on the front cover and spine" T&M. This copy is in red cloth; we have also had green and brown no priority. It is an unusually clean bright copy in near-fine condition a discreet repair at the head of the spine rear endpaper cracked. Taves & Michaluk V017; Myers 10. unknown books
1941WRCAM48307Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1941. vii1192pp. plus three full-page illustrations and twenty-two maps most folding. Folding frontispiece. Quarto. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards gilt leather spine labels t.e.g. Front board slightly bowed. Bookplate on rear pastedown. A touch of light scattered foxing. Very good. The introductory material explains the process by which the Spanish colonized Florida while the bulk of the text explains the evolution of the defense system of Florida from the early defenses of St. Augustine up through the end of the French and Indian War when the Spanish were forced to give up claims to Florida to the British. The many maps and plans are mainly devoted to fortresses. Carnegie Institution of Washington hardcover books
195969720Westport Connecticut: Associated Booksellers 1959. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne. The first part of Verne's novel The Steam House 1880 which recounts the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Frontispiece illustration with an introduction by I.O. Evans. Octavo. Original black cloth binding with gilt titles. Tiny nick to the bottom edge of the rear board; else near fine in a crisp and bright dust jacket. Associated Booksellers hardcover books
19861338972n.p.: Betsy Franco 1986. Softcover. Booklet 9x12; VG/paperback; off-white pictorial covers have very minimal wear; light adhesive residue to front; mild rubbing to edges; text block clean; illustrated; pp 32; inscribed by artist Mitzie Verne; arts - Collection. 1338972. FP New Rockville Stock. Betsy Franco unknown books
188716267New York: Scribner's Sons 1887. 8vo pp. xvi 409; 19 maps and 96 wood-engraved plates; very good bright copy in orig. red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Issued in the Exploration of the World series. First published in English in 1880. Other titles in the series included Famous Travels and Travellers and The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century. <br/><br/> Scribner's Sons hardcover books
187523320London: George Routledge and Sons 1875. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; original blue pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; iv269116pp.; text illus. throughout. General minor shelf wear corners a bit bumped contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown else a Very Good and sound copy. Second volume of "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" preceded by The English at the North Pole. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1888106161888. Or The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Days of Dumouriez. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1888. One preliminary page undated ads with this title the last added. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First British Edition also the first hardbound and first illustrated edition in English published the year after the French edition titled LE CHEMIN DE FRANCE. This tale takes place during the 1792 defense of France under General Dumouriez against the invading Prussians -- culminating in the "cannonade of Valmy." This was one of Verne's most anti-German tales along with THE BEGUM'S FORTUNE; to quote from a contemporary British review cited by T&M This is a dangerous theme for a French writer especially now when the national feeling runs so high against all that is German. The writer delights to seek in the past a literary revenge for recent disasters as it seems not to be likely to come in the immediate future. It somewhat mars our enjoyment to hear so to speak throughout the gnashing of teeth whenever anything German is mentioned. The actual first edition of this title in English was published in wrappers in Toronto by October 1888; this Sampson Low edition was next published the following month. In the same month a wrappered American edition was published by Frank Lovell. This copy is in the secondary binding of green cloth decorated entirely in black and thus lacks one of the best features of the primary binding the gilt "streaks of rain" across the front cover scene. Condition is fine except for a cracked front endpaper. Taves & Michaluk V032; Myers 21. unknown books
1897223292London Sampson Low Marston & Company Limited 1897. 1897. "New and cheaper edition" so stated on title page. 8vo. Illustrated title page and 33 full page plates. 382 pages. Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt tan blue and black with scene on cover and spine. Bright copy very good No signatures or bookplates. Myers 23. Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited [1897?]. hardcover books
1874010516James R. Osgood and Company 1874. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Rare Extremely Fine Copy In Reddish Brown Decorative Brown Cloth. First Edition.Light Cover Wear To Front Board.Beautiful Fresh Copy.Scarce in Such Splendid Condition. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
1874014721James R. Osgood and Company 1874. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Dark Brown Cloth First Edition 1874/1874 Without Foxing Rare in This Condition Beautiful Copy. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
1874170502003Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1873 1874. First American edition. Printed November 1873 with a post-dated title page listing 1874 hence possibly the first edition in English as the London edition was also issued that month. Very Good with front and rear inner hinges professionally repaired. Shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends corners lightly rubbed through and a patch of board visible on the bottom edge of the front board short tear at top of rear joint. Foxing to prelims and terminals pages toned. A bright copy. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
187413349JBoston: James R. Osgood 1874. First Edition - American. Ownership inscription dated December 25 1874. Slight fading to spine rear hinge slightly starting else very good in original salmon colored gilt-stamped cloth. Illustrated with engravings. James R. Osgood hardcover 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
