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1928020173New York NY: Leo Feist. Very Good. 1928. Sheet music. Sheet music is in very good condition. Wear on edges of item. Tri-hole punched on left edge. Pages toned. ; 12" x 9"; 5 pp . Leo Feist unknown books
18743170Boston: James R. Osgood 1874. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. 29pp. 1p. ad. Translated from the French by George M. Towle. Bound in brown pictorial cloth depicting a sail boat on upper board in gilt; spine lettering gilt; faint damp stain to upper margin of most leaves. Light wear to spine ends; previous owner's bookplate; in all a very good copy. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood hardcover books
187473851874. Translated from the French by George M. Towle. Authorized Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1874. Original blind-stamped green moiré cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition and first edition in English. The tales in this collection in addition to "Doctor Ox's Experiment" are "Master Zacharius" "A Drama in the Air" "A Winter in the Ice" and "The Fortieth French Ascension of Mont Blanc" this last item written by Jules's brother Paul. "Doctor Ox's Experiment" is a mad escapade of a scientist overloading a small town's atmosphere with oxygen to see if it will speed up the pace of life there to a virtual frenzy. This edition was published in late June or early July 1874 the same year as the original French. This copy is in green moiré cloth; others are in terra-cotta blue or plain green cloth no priority. This is a near-fine copy endpapers slightly cracked. Taves & Michaluk V012; Myers 16. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1822Boston: James R. Osgood and Co 1874. First edition Original blind stamped and gilt decorated rust colored cloth small octavo. 292 pages plus one page of adverts original blue/green coated endpapers. Wear to corners and spine extremities but remaining a pleasing copy. Lettering and sailing ship in gilt on the cover bright. All edges stained red. Some slight loss of color on rear endpapers along inner hinge but otherwise clean and unmarked. hardcover books
1879164620New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1879. Octavo pp. i-v vi vii viii-ix x 1 2-486 487-512: ads 92 illustrations by Henri Meyer one inserted map original pictorial bevel-edged green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold rear panel stamped in blind cream coated endpapers. Second first authorized U.S. edition. The authorized profusely illustrated Sampson Low and Charles Scribner editions were preceded by a crude 1878 George Munro piracy. "DICK SANDS: THE BOY CAPTAIN is a classic children's novel with a strong plot and plenty of action. Some of its descriptive passages are excellent and many of them are instructive. The bits relating to equatorial Africa and the slave trade are scrupulously and dreadfully accurate as Verne makes sure to indicate by giving his sources and by quoting an extract from an account of the travels of Cameron." - Jules-Verne Jules Verne p. 138. Myers 15. Taves and Michaluk V018. Just a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips a fine copy with perfect tight hinges. A lovely copy of a scarce book. #164620 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1878164619New York: George Munro 1878. Octavo pp. i-v vi 9 10-323 324: blank i-ii: ads note: text complete despite gap in pagination fly leaves at front and rear twenty inserted plates including one map original green pebbled cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold cream endpapers. First edition in English. Published in France as UN CAPITAINE DE QUINZE ANS 1878. This George Munro piracy published in November 1878 preceded the fully illustrated authorized Sampson Low and Charles Scribner editions both dated 1879 on their title pages but both published in December 1878. "DICK SANDS: THE BOY CAPTAIN is a classic children's novel with a strong plot and plenty of action. Some of its descriptive passages are excellent and many of them are instructive. The bits relating to equatorial Africa and the slave trade are scrupulously and dreadfully accurate as Verne makes sure to indicate by giving his sources and by quoting an extract from an account of the travels of Cameron." - Jules-Verne Jules Verne p. 138. Myers 15. Taves and Michaluk V018. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips some rubbing along outer joints and fore-edges some scuffing and spotting to cloth a sound good copy. #164619 George Munro unknown books
187883451878. A Novel. New York: George Munro 1878. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth. First Edition in English of this new and brilliant narrative of adventures by sea and land embracing exciting incidents of the whale fishery in the Southern Ocean and the African Slave Trade all told in the inimitable graphic manner which has made Jules Verne the most popular author of the century from Munro's contemporary ad cited in T&M. Published in France as UN CAPITAINE DE QUINZE ANS this tale was first published in English in November 1878 by the American pirate publisher Munro: The 1878 hardcover edition entitled DICK SAND; or a Captain at Fifteen is the best manufactured of all Verne books published by Munro. It is bound in green cloth extra illustrated with 20 engravings including a map priced at $1.00. T&M The book was also issued by Munro at the same time in a two-volume wrappered format. Sampson Low's authorized London edition was published the following month in December at the end of which month Charles Scribner's Sons also published their edition dated 1879. Both the Sampson Low and the Scribner editions were titled DICK SANDS with a final "S". This is a bright near-fine copy with very minor rubbing at the extremities. Taves & Michaluk V018; Myers 15. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1878105871878. or A Captain at Fifteen. A Novel. New York: George Munro 1878. 2 pp undated ads. Original green cloth. First Edition in English of this tale originally published in France as UN CAPITAINE DE QUINZE ANS. A whale hunt in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and the Americas ends in tragedy and Dick Sand as the only surviving crew member becomes captain at fifteen years of age. Not possessing the full skills of a sailor Dick tries to get the ship east to the South American coast. However the cook on board has plans of his own and manages to get the ship diverted to eventually land in the country of Angola on the continent of Africa. The cook's plans involve killing Dick and selling the other passengers of the ship into slavery. Kytasaari This tale was first published in English in November 1878 by the American pirate publisher Munro -- both in a two-volume wrappered format and in this plain green cloth format "the best manufactured of all Verne books published by Munro". Sampson Low's authorized London edition was published the following month in December at the end of which month Charles Scribner's Sons also pubÂlished their edition both dated 1879. Both the Sampson Low and the Scribner editions were titled DICK SANDS with a final "S". This is a fine copy virtually as new. Taves & Michaluk V018; Myers 15. unknown books
1890100241890. 85 Dessins de George Roux. 12 Grandes Gravures en Chromotypographie. 2 Grandes Cartes en Chromolithographie. Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie. n.d. 1890. 8 pp ads dated 1890-1891. Original red cloth decorated in black gilt and silver all edges gilt.<br/><br/> First Illustrated Edition of one of Verne's great mysterious tales of travel: César Cascabel and his family have made enough money to return home to France from California. Unfortunately their trip east is cut short when all their money is stolen. Their only option is to return to France by traveling west via Alaska the Bering Strait and Siberia. Along the way they encounter Mr. Sergius a Russian with his companion Kayette an Alaskan native both of whom join the band on their trip west. However Mr. Sergius has a secret which may jeopardize the safety of the family when they reach the Russian frontier. Kytasaari This was the only Verne title that first appeared in this binding -- the cartonnage "aux deux elephants" which some other tales shared but no other has some of the front cover panels in silver as here. Not only is this the earliest binding style for CÉSAR CASCABEL but also the ad catalogue at the rear is the earliest issue dated 1890-1891. This is a remarkably fine bright copy spine very slightly faded but much less than usual and with none of the usual foxing within -- of one of Hetzel's most extravagant bindings. Bottin pp 159-160. unknown books
1890biblio119iv373 pages with eighty-one plates including frontispiece. Octavo 8 1/2" x 6" bound in the variant mustard cloth with spine and cover lettering in gilt and black pictorial on spine and cover. Translated from the French by A Estoclet. Illustrations by George Roux. First American edition preceding the English edition.<br /><br />Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. 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 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979 between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction" as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> Corners gently bumped light age toning to preliminary pages some internal fingering end paper renewed spine darkened else a very good copy. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
1953006902Boston MA: Meador Publishing Company 1953. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 192 pages of text including index. Errata slip tipped-in. Hardcover binding in almost new condition with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket is complete with minor darkening of spine and minor soiling along edges; one tiny closed tear and minor creasing; protected in archival mylar. This is "A documented study of the role National Education Association is taking in the indoctrination of the youth of our country with the ideology of Communism-Socialism.". Meador Publishing Company Hardcover books
013466New York: Gilberton Company Some light chipping bottom of front cover. Two small creases front cover. Ink check marks and circles rear cover.This is the 6th edition HRN 92 with line drawn coverLDC. Priced 15¢ on front cover. The first edition O was published in February 1947. See Overstreet p. 524. Reprint. Color Illustrated Wrappers. Light edge and Corner Wear. Octavo. Gilberton Company Paperback books
19653510Westport: Associated Booksellers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Edited and translated from the French by I. O. Evans. First edition thus. About fine in a near fine minor wear at base of spine somewhat rubbed on rear panel dust jacket. . Associated Booksellers hardcover books
2376Prague. Státní nakladatelství dìtské knihy. 1961. 4to. 295 4 pp. with 30 full page 2 repeated colour collages and several colour head pieces. Illustrated endpapers. Original cloth with original dust jacket designed by A. Hoffmeister. unknown books
1895106421895. With Illustrations. New York: R. F. Fenno & Company n.d. 1895. Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in black and silver. First American Edition in cloth of this tale of buried treasure described as follows in a contemporary review cited in T&M: Captain Antifer's father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Jaff Jaffa Kamylk Pasha and many years after he received a mysterious document naming latitude 24 degrees 59 minutes north and saying that the longitude would follow later. It never did; but Antifer succeeded in discovering it and had a series of most exciting adventures in searching for the wealth which was to be found on the spot indicated. Antifer's efforts to find the islet's longitude complicated by treachery and demands of marriage take him to the Gulf of Oman the Gulf of Guinea and even north of Norway. After serialization in Boy's Own Fenno published a wrappered version of this tale in June 1895 the first edition in the English language; both Fenno and in England Sampson Low then published clothbound editions in November of that year -- precedence uncertain. This Fenno volume has a binding design very much like those of the American trade binding artist Margaret Armstrong and is profusely illustrated. This copy is in fine condition Christmas 1895 inscription. Taves & Michaluk V042; Myers 6. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1895217380New York: R.F. Fenno & Company 1895. First American edition in cloth. Illustrated. iv 319 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth decorated in black and white. Some very light rubbing to extremities and faint spotting to boards light waterstaining to lower margin of several leaves. First American edition in cloth. Illustrated. iv 319 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Myers 6; Michaluk V042; Edwards 42 R.F. Fenno & Company unknown books
1890101926New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1890. Octavo pp. 1-2: blank i-ii iii-iv 1-373 374: blank note: first leaf is a blank 84 inserted plates with full-page illustrations by George Roux plus a small vignette on page iv original pictorial gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First edition in English. A family of circus performers stranded in America after their money is stolen decide to return to Europe via the Bering Straits. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Myers 7. Taves and Michaluk V037. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips front cover and spine panel soiled several small stains to fore-edge of text block a sound tight copy with clean interior. #101926 Cassell Publishing Company unknown books
1890106341890. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Illustrated by George Roux. New York: Cassell Publishing Company n.d. 1890. Original light blue cloth pictorially decorated in black. First American Edition also the first edition in English. Quoting from a contemporary review cited in T&M -- Like most of M. Jules Verne's books it is the story of a journey. Some acrobats wish to travel from California to their native France and having no money they determine to go in their caravan northward to Bering's Straits crossing on the ice and make their way through Siberia into Europe. M. Jules Verne's travellers are generally successful: in spite of robbers icebergs and the Russian police the bold Frenchmen triumphantly reach their goal. Pictured on the front cover is the troupe with their horse-drawn wagon climbing into the Sierras while the spine shows one of them fleeing a grizzly bear. This undated American edition CAESAR was published sometime in the autumn of 1890 probably late September; Sampson Low's London edition CESAR was not published until over a year later in November 1891. This copy is in light blue cloth; we have also had copies in olive green and in mint green no priority. It is a near-fine copy light foxing on the leaves within but the light-colored cloth is remarkably clean and bright and there is scarcely any wear. There is a Christmas 1890 ownership inscription on the front flyleaf. Taves & Michaluk V037; Myers 7. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1890WRCLIT39206New York: Cassell 1890. Large thick octavo. Mustard cloth pictorially stamped in black lettered in gilt. Frontis and plates. First edition in English translated by A. Estoclet preceding the London edition. Though the cloth color is at variance from that described by Myers for the first printing the plates are printed on one side only and there are no ads as per the first printing. Inner hinges cracking slightly circulating library plate on pastedown a number of marginal discolorations in the early portion of the text and on the front free endsheet; thus just a good copy but externally bright and fresh. MYERS 7. Cassell hardcover books
196392171Westport:: Associated Booksellers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. B00994GPYI . Edited and translated from the French by I. O. Evans. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Associated Booksellers, hardcover books
196364627Westport:: Associated Booksellers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. B00994GPYI . Edited and translated from the French by I. O. Evans. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine light rubbing on rear panel price clipped dust jacket. . Associated Booksellers, hardcover books
196356732Westport:: Associated Booksellers. Very Good. 1963. Hardcover. Edited and translated from the French by I. O. Evans. First edition thus. Very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket. . Associated Booksellers, hardcover books
1991S11385New York:: Jonathan Hill 1991. 1991. LIMITED EDITION OF 1100 copies. 4to. xiv 391 pp. Frontispiece 49 illustrations. Quarter gilt-stamped beige cloth over illustrated paper-backed boards. Fine. A beautiful alphabetical presentation and description of a library of some 1200 books on mechanics. Jonathan Hill, (1991). hardcover books
1991177602New York: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. Hardcover. VG. leather has scratches & scuffs. light black scuffs/shelfwear to lower textblock fore-edge. full blue goatskin leather boards w/ silver spine printing. book xiv 391 pages w/ bw illustrations & frontispiece. A cleaning error damaged the original copper plate used in the process of printing the frontispiece resulting in only 150 copies having a frontis reproduced from the orginal plate. This is copy P/6. This copy is signed by the author publishers and typestter W. Thomas Taylor. As per the publisher there is approximately only 10 copies bound in full goatskin leather. Jonathan A. Hill hardcover books
199123199New York City: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. First Edition. Boards. Fine. First Edition. xiv 2 391 pages. 4to. Tan cloth over decorative printed paper boards. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies. A new unread copy. Boards. An extensively annotated bibliography of the History of Mechanics a collection built by Verne Roberts. Essential reference for the dealer collector or librarian interested in this field of study. Jonathan A. Hill unknown books
