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1956295665New York: Heritage 1956. hardcover. fine. Numerous color illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. The English version made from the French by Mercer Lewis with a new introduction by Fetcher Pratt. 325pp. tall 8vo handsomely bound by Baynton in full blue crushed morocco orange leather spine labels inner dentelles all edges gilt. New York: Heritage Press 1956. Fine.<br/><br/> Heritage unknown books
18731702020Sampson Low 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The extremely rare first UK edition. Very good in quarter-leather binding decorated in gold gilt. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Sampson Low hardcover books
1946156097Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1946. Rainbow Classics edition. Hardcover. Good/Good- General shelf wear but fine contents clean and tight. DJ has chipping and small tears at edges but still worthy. Pictorial covers with black title block and gilt lettering on spine. Decorative end papers. Illus. black dj with white lettering. 375 pp. with color frontis 3 additional color plates and 34 bw illustrations. Fantastical classic with an introduction by May Lamberton Becker and illustrations by Kurt Wiese. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
194614181New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1946. Reprint 4to pp. 407. Pictorial black cloth. Illustrated by W. J. Aylward. Very good copy. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1977170527006Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 1977. Leather Bound. Like New. Collector's edition bound in brown genuine leather lettered and edged in gilt silken endpapers. Fine. A lovely copy. The Easton Press unknown books
18731908008James R. Osgood and Co Boston 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first issue. Book in very good condition. The book is rebacked. Housed in a custom-made foldout case. James R. Osgood and Co, Boston hardcover books
1890106191890. New York: J. S. Ogilvie n.d. 1890. 1 page preliminary ads plus 2 pp terminal ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First American Edition and first edition in the English language. This is the sequel to Verne's "Moon" books of many years earlier: quoting from the preliminary ad leaf this is the story of How the Americans bought the North Pole and planned to change the axis of the Earth making the Arctic regions bloom like the Tropics by the explosion of a stupendous cannon. This tale is a good example of Verne's growing cynicism: whereas in the 1870s he has the Baltimore Gun Club using its gigantic cannon to explore the moon here the club has purchased land in the Arctic so that they can reap huge profits when that land becomes tropical. "Topsy Turvy" appeared in English in the January 19 1890 issue of New York World -- at the same time that newspaper's famous reporter Nellie Bly was attempting to beat Phileas Fogg's record time around the world. It was at some point soon thereÂafter that this Ogilvie edition No. 183 of "The Favorite Series" with ten illustrations was published the wrappered version in Ogilvie's "Fireside Series" is dated January 1890 on its wrapper. Sampson Low's British edition THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE was not published until December of that year with twenty chapters; both the original French edition and Ogilvie's edition have twenty-one. This copy is clean and unworn -- fine except that the endpapers have damage from overzealous erasure. As always the text paper itself is browned and brittle -- as Ogilvie produced as cheap a book as it could. This is quite an uncommon Verne volume. Taves & Michaluk V035; Myers 53. unknown books
1878164624Philadelphia: Claxton 1878. 12mo pp. v-vii ix-xii 13-401 402-404: blank note: text complete despite gap in pagination flyleaves at front and rear 36 inserted plates with illustrations by P. Philippoteaux original pictorial terra cotta cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold rear panel ruled in blind brown coated endpapers. First U.S. hardcover edition and the first printing of this translation. The first part of an unauthorized adaptation of HECTOR SERVADAC published in November 1877 although dated 1878 on the title page. Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger published their unauthorized edition of part two OFF ON A COMET! A JOURNEY THROUGH PLANETARY SPACE A SEQUEL TO "TO THE SUN" in February 1879. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Reginald 14647. Myers 33. Taves and Michaluk V016. Private owner's bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Inner front hinge cracked but holding tight a bright very good copy with no binding wear. A lovely copy. #164624 Claxton unknown books
1899139637Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. 1899. Octavo pp. 3-5 6-161 163; 145 146-192 111 112-155 156-158: ads original pictorial green cloth front panel stamped in black white and light brown spine panel stamped in black and gold pictorial endpapers. First U.S hardcover edition. UN BILLET DE LOTERIE 1886 was first published in English in 1886 by George Munro of New York in two paperbound volumes as part of his "Seaside Library" the first volume was published by July 1886 and the second by December 1886. In August 1886 Sampson Low published the first British edition as THE LOTTERY TICKET. The plates of Munro's books were acquired by Donohue of Chicago who published this hardcover edition. Though mentioning only "Ticket No. 9672" on the binding and title page the book also includes parts of "Seaside Library" books by other authors including a selection of stories by Poe. Taves & Michaluk V031. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips gold stamping on spine panel quite tarnished private owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper small bookstore price sticker affixed to verso of front free endpaper a good copy of an uncommon book. #139637 M. A. Donohue & Co. unknown books
1899106141899. Translated from the French by Laura E. Kendall. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. n.d. 3 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black light blue and peach. First American hardbound edition. UN BILLET DE LOTERIE was first published in France in 1886 and that same year George Munro of New York was the first to publish this in English -- in two self-wrappered volumes of his "Seaside Library" the first volume was published by July 1886 and the second by December 1886. In between these two in August Sampson Low published the first British edition as THE LOTTERY TICKET. Munro being of course a pirate publisher his business went downhill fast after the passage of the International Copyright Act in 1891 clearly George did not offer enough "soft money" to his legislators. His "Seaside Library" publications became the property of Donohue of Chicago and this book published "by the turn of the century" T&M is one result: though mentioning only "Ticket No. 9672" on the binding and title page it also includes various other former "Seaside Library" numbers by other authors including Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." There were no other American editions of this Verne tale between the Munro two-volume wrappered first and this Donahue one -- making this the first American hardbound edition. Both the front cover and the spine portray lighter-than-air flying machines. The usual problem for this book is the erosion of the peach-colored pigment used on the binding and this copy is no exception: although the book has very little overall wear the peach is entirely missing from the spine in fact it appears never to have been applied there and partly from the front cover. Taves & Michaluk V031; also see Myers 52. unknown books
1967147624Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1967. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film here under the working title "Blast-Off." <br/><br/>Inspired by the Jules Verne's 1865 novel "From the Earth to the Moon" producer Harry Alan Towers wrote the story under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck which Dave Freeman adapted to a screenplay. Released in the UK as "Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon" and in the US as "Those Fantastic Flying Fools" to capitalize on the success of Ken Annakin's 1965 film "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines."<br/><br/>Set in Victorian England Phineas T. Barnum Burl Ives who arrives after his circus burns to the ground attempts to launch a rocket from a massive gun barrel as the project is beset with spies saboteurs and embezzlement.<br/><br/>Set in Wales shot on location in Ireland. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Olive Films OF1330. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
000934Tucson; 1966: University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Quarto. 225pp .index. Inscribed by the author. Illustrated by DeGrazia in color and in black and white. Clark defines or clarifies the horse's symbolic significance to the Navajo and Apache in ceremony song prayer custom and belief. A near fine copy bound in turquoise cloth lettered in silver spine lettering silver in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket with very minor wear. University of Arizona Press unknown books
17887NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. N.D. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Cranston Metcalfe. A reprint of the 1924 G. Howard Watt edition. Half title page has been removed else very good in a very good minor edge wear and fading dust jacket. . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1875TB27843Boston: James R. Osgood And Company 1875. First American Edition. Good in original decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board and with blind embossing to the front and rear boards. A 24mo measuring 6" by 4" with all edges of the text block stained red rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the cloth at the fore edge of the front board. There is an early prior owner's name in pencil at the upper edge of the first free end page and the rear hinge is broken. Translated from The French by George M. Towle. 285 pages of text. James R. Osgood And Company 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
1911109825London: George Routledge & Sons; Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1911. The complete works of Jules Verne. Octavo 17 volumes bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards gilt titles to the spine raised bands. The following titles are present: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Round The World in Eighty Days Journey To The Center of the Earth A Voyage Around the World A Floating City The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians In Southern Africa From the Earth to the Moon Direct and Round the Moon The Fur Country The English at the north Pole The Field of Ice The Mysterious Island first illustrated edition 1886 Dick Sands Five Weeks in a Balloon first illustrated edition Michael Strogoff Dr. Ox's Experiment Author's Illustrated Edition 1884 A Winter Amid the Ice The Steam House parts I and II The Begum's Fortune The Tribulations of a Chinaman Author's Illustrated Edition The Green Ray Godfrey Morgan Hector Servadas The Giant Raft Keraban The Inflexible The Child of the Cavern Author's Illustrated Edition The Archipelago on Fire Martin Paz First Illustrated Edition 1886 The Survivors of the Chancellor Author's Illustrated Edition 1887. In near fine condition. 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. George Routledge & Sons; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 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
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
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
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
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
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
