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10367ENew York: Ace Books n.d. First Edition. Paperback original. Ownership signature. Very good lightly used copy in printed wrappers. The sequel to Verne’s classic work From the Earth to the Moon. The front panel of the cover is a color illustration of a giant explosion on the surface of the moon with a distinguished portrait of Jules Verne materializing in middle distant space. Ace Books paperback books
1952003618Chicago: Classical Philology Journal 1952. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper. Near Fine slight age-toning to wrappers. 5 pages paginated 214-218. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Classical Philology Journal Paperback books
196685887London:: Arco Publications. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Part of the Fitzroy Edition series. Edited and translated from the French by I. O. Evans. First edition thus. Very good in a very good age toning along the spine rubbing price clipped dust jacket. . Arco Publications, hardcover books
1937148511Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film showing actors Elizabeth Allan and Fay Bainter. <br/><br/>Based on the 1876 novel "Michel Strogoff" following a Russian courier as he travels cross-country to deliver a message to the troops on the Tartar battlefront.<br/><br/>Set in Russia.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. RKO Radio Pictures 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
1881L0201b2 volumes. The Demon of Cawnpore 262foldout map1 blank8 ad pages with frontispiece and 48 plates. Small octavo 7 ½" x 5 ¾" bound in original publisher's gilt and black stamped blue cloth spine in pictorial black and gilt cover beveled edges; Tigers and Traitors 2468 ad pages with frontispiece 46 illustrations and fold out map. Small octavo 7 ½" x 5 ¾" bound in original publisher's gilt and black stamped brown cloth spine in pictorial black and gilt cover beveled edges. Translated from the French by Agnes D Kingston. Illustrated by Leon Bennett. Illustrated by Leon Bennett. Gallagher Mistichelli and Van Eerde A48. Taves and Michaluk V021 First American illustrated edition. First published in the US by George Munro in the Seaside Library Series.<br /><br />The Steam House French: La maison à vapeur is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader travel in nineteenth century India. The descriptions are interspersed with historical information and social commentary. The book takes place in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against British rule with the passions and traumas aroused still very much alive among Indians and British alike. An alternate title by which the book was known - "The End of Nana Sahib" - refers to the appearance in the book of the historical figure Rebel leader Nana Sahib who disappeared after the crushing of the rebellion his ultimate fate unknown. Verne offers a fictional explanation to his disappearance. The first part was The Steam House was titled The Demon of Cawnpore the second part Tigers and Traitors.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />The Deamon of Cawnpore Light foxing to page ends crease at map corer rubbing to spine ends and points. The Tigers and Traitors small unobtrusive bookseller's label to front gutter paste down else better than very good brite set. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover 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
1881164631New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1881. Octavo signed in eights sewn in twelves two volumes: pp. 1-2 i-v vi vii viii ix-x 1 2-262 263-264: blank 265-272: ads note: first leaf is a blank; i-v vi vii viii ix-x 1 2-246 247-254: ads fly leaves at front and rear of each volume 50 full page illustrations by Leon Benett integral to text leaves not inserted plates and one inserted folding map in part I 48 full page illustrations by L. Benett integral to text leaves not inserted plates and one inserted folding map in part II original pictorial gray part I and brown part II bevel-edged cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First U.S. hardcover editions. Translation of LA MAISON A VAPEUR: VOYAGE A TRAVERS L'INDE SEPTENTRIONALE 1880. The adventures of four Englishmen traveling in India in two trailers pulled by a steam powered mechanical elephant. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2236. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Reginald 14608. Myers 46. Taves and Michaluk V021. Cloth of part I is worn at spine ends and corner tips it is a sound very good copy; part II is a bright fine copy. #164631 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
19781322520Mattituck: Aeonian Press Inc 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 144; VG; black spine with gilt text; no jacket; book one only; cloth has very slight wear to exterior; sturdy boards; text block has slight wear to exterior edges; tight binding; interior clean; good condition;. 1322520. FP New Rockville Stock. Aeonian Press, Inc hardcover books
1876105531876. Diary of J. R. Kazallon Passenger. Translated from the French by Ellen Frewer. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1876. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled. First American Illustrated Edition actually printed in London. In mid-1875 Osgood published the first edition in English unillustrated as a little volume in their "Saunterer's Series." In November 1875 Sampson Low published the first illustrated edition in London. Then in January 1876 Osgood issued some of the British sheets in their own binding constituting the first American illustrated edition -- as here. In March 1876 -- just two months later -- Osgood's financial situation forced him to sell at auction the plates and unsold copies of the five Verne titles he had published; these were bought by one Albert Mason who in turn sold them to Porter & Coates of Philadelphia -- who would then proceed to use the plates to publish editions of their own. Porter & Coates also issued some copies with the Osgood 1876 title page but with "Porter & Coates" at the foot of the spine. As with the British edition the volume also includes the early Verne tale "Martin Paz" though it is not mentioned on the binding nor on the title page. This copy is in green cloth and the gilt vignette on the front cover is centered no known priority. It is a bright near-fine copy fine except for minor rubbing at the extremities. Apparently because of Osgood's then-pending doom this is today a scarce book. Taves & Michaluk V014; Myers 47. <br/><br/> hardcover books
187612355JBoston: James R. Osgood 1876. First Edition. Former ownership inscription dated December 25 1875. Front hinge starting with a few small chips and tears to the front free endpaper. Original brown gilt-stamped decorated cloth with some rubbing and wear at the extremities. All illustrations present and complete. James R. Osgood hardcover books
193342834New York: New York Labor News Company 1933. Pamphlet. 40p. worn soiled wraps with some crimping throughout the text previous owner's name in pencil on title page good-only condition 5x7.5 inches. New York Labor News Company unknown books
1873285763Boston: Osgood 1873. First. hardcover. good. Translated by George M. Towle. 16mo terra cotta cloth blind-stamped with the title and pictorial sketch in gilt . Boston: Osgood 1873. First Edition<br/><br/> First American and first edition in English. First issue with the translator's name not on the title page; red and black title page; red edges; black end-papers. The book has a definite lean and is shelf-worn but is internally sound & clean.<br/><br/> Osgood unknown books
1873WRCLIT78296Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1873. 291pp. 12mo. Terracotta cloth. decorated in blind and gilt. Frontis. Shaken somewhat and retightened between frontis and title extremities rubbed and a bit frayed at tips some soiling to cloth early ink name. Just a sound copy. First edition in English translated from the French by George W. Towle. Towle's name appears on the title-page a point generally taken to imply a later issue or more likely impression. BLEILER. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
190026145Cleveland Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company 1900. Later printing. Later printing. 2 ii 5-201 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Decorated wrappers. Wear to extremities paper browned. Given the fragility of the binding a remarkable survival. One of many reprints of this work done during the late 19th/early 20th century. This specific edition is not called out by Taves and Michaluk in their long list of reprints although Westbrook is noted as one of many reprints issued during the 1900 period. This particular edition is also not found in OCLC/Worldcat. A nice addition for the completest or scholarly collection. The Arthur Westbrook Company unknown books
187326890Boston: James R. Osgood 1873. First Edition in English and First American. Frontispiece illustration of "Le Saint Michel". 1 vols. 12mo. Blue cloth with frontispiece reproduced in gilt on upper cover red edges greenish-black endpapers; some wear to extremities spine repaired ownership signature dated 1873 on fly leaf and title else internally fine. First Edition in English and First American. Frontispiece illustration of "Le Saint Michel". 1 vols. 12mo. First Edition in English of Verne's Masterpiece. This copy in blue cloth--a rare variant green being the usual color. Taves & Michaluk V011; Meyers 54 James R. Osgood unknown 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
189513602London: R.E. King Printer for Divine Hall & Co. Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn South Africa 1895. First Edition. Very Good. 8vo 7.25x5in; vii 184 pp. 1 advertisement; Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine blind stamped designs with gilt publisher design on front fore edge of covers beveled top edge gilt and all edges untrimmed; Shelf wear to covers edges and corners covers soiled with stain spots corners bumped and worn through spine darken with soling stain spots and repaired tears to top and bottom both hinges cracked and loose first pages loose text pages age darken and fragile due to quality of paper; Tipped in light green card with the book inscribed to Steve Fossett from Alex Tai dated April 5 2004 "Dear Steve On the day you and your team smashing the unassisted sailing record around the world. An original Verne on achieving the new "Sub Sixty Jules Verne" Yours Inspired Alex Tai" And handwritten letter dated the same "Dear Steve For 80 Days read less than 60!! Verne's fiction proves that fact can BE more inspiring. Well done to you and your team this year has the makings of one of your greatest. Best Wishes Alex Tai". A very rare book printed for a South African publisher and only one related copy found on WorldCat. Taves/Michaluk p. 138. Jules Verne 1828-1905 a French author famous for his many novels of adventures exploration and the future and the "Father of science fiction". In 1872 the serialized version of "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" first appeared in print. This was a grand travel adventure that capture the public interest when world travel was becoming easier. The printer Richard Edward King London published this book around 1895. It appears that an edition was printed for Divine Hall with special red cloth binding as described above. Divine Hall & Co. were general merchants gun dealers and dealers in other items in the communities of Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn from according to South African directories.Steve Fossett 1944-2007 was a successful commodities trader and an adventurer that set world records in balloons sailboats gliders and unique powered aircraft. In 2002 he was the first person to solo circumnavigate the world in a balloon uninterrupted and unrefueled and in 2005 made a solo nonstop unrefueled flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer sponsored by Richard Branson. In the 1980's Fossett began developing a library collection of books on adventure and exploration. He enlisted the services of an experienced bookseller to assist in building a collection of more than 2000 volumes focusing on significant and authoritative accounts of aeronautics polar Asian Australasian circumnavigation's mountaineering and others. In September 2007 Fossett disappeared on a solo flight in a light aircraft over the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. After an extensive search the wreckage was found by hikers a year later along the rugged Mt. Ritter range about 10 miles east of Yosemite National Park. R.E. King, Printer for Divine, Hall & Co., Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn, South Africa unknown books
1881135161881. 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. Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for honorable suicide by arranging for a friend to kill him. Learns that his fortune isn't lost after all. Tells friend thanks but there is no need to kill him. Friend replies that he has already arranged for some thug to do the deed and now can't contact him. This Dutton edition was actually published in October 1880 exactly a year after Lee and Shepard of Boston published the first edition in English which was unillustrated and was in a plain binding. 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 virtually as new. Taves & Michaluk V020; Myers 55. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1881105971881. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1881. One page undated ads priced in sterling. Original bright red cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated American Edition also the first to be issued in a decorative cloth binding of one of Verne's odder tales. Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for honorable suicide by arranging for a friend to kill him. Learns that his fortune isn't lost after all. Tells friend thanks but there is no need to kill him. Friend replies that he has already arranged for some thug to do the deed and now can't contact him. This Verne title is also unusual in that all three early publishers of this tale on both sides of the Atlantic ultimately published it in the exact same cloth binding showing several characters "afloat on their backs propelled by the wind caught in minisails attached to toe-masts controlled by waistband halyards" T&M. The first edition in English was published in September 1879 by Lee & Shepard of Boston translated by Virginia Champlin and unillustrated both in wrappers and in plain cloth. By November George Munro then published it in wrappers in his Seaside Library. About a year later October 1880 but dated 1881 Dutton of New York published the tale as here from the British plates a different translation by Ellen Frewer -- with fifty full-page illustrations from the original French edition and in the binding designed by Sampson Low. In November Sampson Low published it in England perhaps waiting to make it a holiday offering. Finally a year after this September or October 1881 Lee & Shepard re-published the Champlin translation but with the fifty illustrations that had appeared in the Dutton and Sampson Low editions and in the same binding they had used. This copy is in bright red cloth one of several colors used without priority and is in near-fine condition just a hint of wear at the spine ends but unusually bright; the front endpaper bears a Christmas 1880 gift inscription verifying the book's actual year of publication. Taves & Michaluk V020. unknown books
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
1879150912005Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Also the first in the English language. Title page dated 1880 but actually printed in October of 1879. Original brown cloth with gilt on spine black lettering. pp. vi 271 ix. Very Good condition. A bit of foxing and dust-soiling to edges light wear to cloth. Erased blue penciled name on title page. A very nice copy of an adventure novel by the French author of Around the World in Eighty Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham hardcover books
195724036New York: Key Publishing Co. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /good . 8vo. Red cloth in black pictorial jacket. Light chipping and small tears to jacket at corners and spine ends; moderate wear to edges and light soil to rear panel. Boards bumped at corners. Very good plus in good plus jacket. <br/><br/>A young woman runs away to live the disreputable lifestyle of a carnival barker making time for a "hectic interlude on the Isle of Lesbos" with "Marla who was a blonde on the DEBBIE REYNOLDS Type." Early sleaze with impassioned publisher's jacket summary. Chapter titles include: THE FERRIS WHEEL THE WHIP THE CYCLONE THE MERRY-GO-ROUND and finally THE TUNNEL OF LOVE. By Orrie Hitt writing as Charles Verne; dedicated to fellow pulp author Carlson Wade. Key Publishing Co. hardcover books
196169721Westport Connecticut: Associated Booksellers 1961. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. The Fitzroy Edition of Jules Verne edited by I.O. Evans. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with gilt titles. Some very light browning along the spine of the dust jacket with a few unnecessary tape reinforcements to the verso; else very good or better. Associated Booksellers hardcover books
1911114596New York and London: Vincent Parke and Company 1911. The Complete Works of Jules Verne. Octavo 15 volumes bound in three quarters morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands raised bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers illustrated. Edited by Charles F. Horne. In excellent condition with some dampstaining to some of the boards and page extremities. Jules Verne is considered by many to be the father of science fiction with a prodigious oeuvre of novels and short fiction. This edition of his works includes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Also includes the first edition in English of Verne's later novel The Master of the World preceding the first separate English and American editions of 1914. Edited and with introductions by American scholar Charles F. Horne. Many of the works appear under title variants as found in Taves & Michaluk 95-102. Vincent Parke and Company hardcover books
