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1875184391New York: Scribner Armstrong 1875. Hardcover. G Cover and spine have wear and staining. Corner and edge damage on cover and spine. Bookblock has age toning. Some interior pages have foxing. Inside cover have some peeling. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Gilt design on spine. 110 pages : 48 illustrations. Scribner, Armstrong hardcover books
1875148056New York: Scribner 1875. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2-110 111: map 112: ads fly leaves at front and rear 48 illustrations 1 full-page map original decorated brown cloth front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind spine panel stamped in gold rear panel ruled in blind yellow endpapers. First authorized U.S. edition. The Henry L. Shepard 1874 piracy titled SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR may have preceded this Scribner Armstrong edition by a few days. The Scribner Armstrong edition is dated 1875 on the title page but the book was issued in late October 1874. It was copyrighted 26 October 1874 and Scribner Armstrong filed two deposit copies on 31 October 1874. WRECKED IN THE AIR the first of three parts of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND was issued simultaneously in cloth and in pictorial wrappers the latter binding state now rarely encountered. WRECKED IN THE AIR the only part of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND issued by Scribner Armstrong in a two-column format perhaps utilizing the plates of the SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE printing was rushed into print to compete with the 1874 Shepard piracy. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2234. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 767. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 19. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Myers 42. Taves and Michaluk V013. Early owner's gift inscription dated 1874 on the front flyleaf. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips a very good copy. #148056 Scribner unknown books
1959299526Baltimore: Limited Editions Club 1959. Limited. hardcover. very good. Edward A. Wilson. In the original English translation of W.H.G. Kingston with an Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Color frontispiece and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. 568 pages. Tall thick 8vo patterned cloth; rubbed at spine ends and extremities. Baltimore: Limited Editions Club 1959. A very good solid copy lacking the original slipcase.<br/><br/> One of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
195970868Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1959. Hardcover. Fine. A volume in The Collector's Library of Famous Editions series. Signed on the title page by Ray Bradbury who wrote the introduction. First published in French in three volumes 1874 The Mysterious Island follows the adventures of a group of castaways on an uncharted island and is one of the books in Verne's series of Voyages extraordinaires or Extraordinary Voyages. A French novelist Jules Verne 1828-1905 had a pivotal influence on the development of modern science fiction. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. Collector's Notes laid in. Tall octavo. Full blue leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping two raised bands moire silk endpapers and a ribbon marker. A fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover books
194636129NY: Scribner's 1946. NC Wyeth. Large 8vo pp. 493. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Cover little scuffed at corners and ends of spine o/w a nice copy in littlestained and chipped dj. A reprint with a dj. Scribner's unknown books
193761746New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. 493pp. black cloth with pictorial paper label on front cover gilt stamping to spine. Spine lettering is faded covers are slightly scuffed and soiled with scuffed spine ends and cover corners. Hinges just starting with a slight tone to contents. However contents are bright and complete overall a nice copy. . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
191857.1New York: Scribners 1918. 1st. Hardcover. N.C. Wyeth. In publisher's black cloth with full color pastedown on front cover. Spine stamped in gilt still bright. Edges uncut. Previous owner's inscription on front endpapers. Contents clean and very bright. Image available on request. <br/><br/> Scribners hardcover books
19461328641New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1946. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 493; G-; black spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth shows some rubbing wear to exterior and edges; small chips to spine edges and fore corners; full color illustration and titles to front; sturdy boards; text block has mild age toning to edges; pictorial endpapers; small cracks to hinges; frontispiece; illustrated; good binding;. 1328641. FP New Rockville Stock. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1924476New York: G. Howard Watt 1924. First American edition. Very Good /Near Fine. A Very Good copy of the book with the rear hinge professionally tightened and a previous owner's name on the front free end paper. In a very bright Near Fine jacket publisher clipped on the four corners but retaining the original price. A late work by this master of science fiction and adventure first published posthumously. <br/><br/>This action-packed novel features piracy in the South Atlantic and the desperate measures undertaken by men stranded on a small island home to the southern-most lighthouse in the world. The Lighthouse at the End of the World was inspired by the real lighthouse at the southern tip of Argentina. Verne's novel was later adapted into the 1971 film The Light at the Edge of the World. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. G. Howard Watt unknown books
1971140703N.p.: Bryna Productions 1971. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1971 film. <br/><br/>A ship of devious pirates takes control of a remote lighthouse with the intention of luring unexpecting ships to their demise. A lone survivor of the lighthouse crew is charged with recapturing the lighthouse. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Spain. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a holograph ink notation to the verso. Bryna Productions unknown books
1971140510N.p.: Bryna Productions 1971. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1971 film. <br/><br/>A ship of devious pirates takes control of a remote lighthouse with the intention of luring unexpecting ships to their demise. A lone survivor of the lighthouse crew is charged with recapturing the lighthouse. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Spain. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a holograph ink notation to the verso. Bryna Productions unknown books
1953003616Bruxelles Belgium: Chronique d'Egypte 1953. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper. Near Fine a few small stains to wrappers. 7page reprint of article paginated 356-361. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Chronique d'Egypte Paperback books
04577London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. The Scarcest of All Verne First Editions<br/><br/>VERNE Jules. The Green Ray. Translated From the French by Mary de Hautville. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. <br/><br/>First British edition and First edition in English the five shillings issue with plain edges with 32 page publisher's catalogue September 1883 at rear. 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. <br/><br/>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 a near fine and untouched copy.<br/><br/>The scarcest of all Verne first editions. Only two copies have come to auction within the last thirty-six years one rebound the other "becoming loose."<br/><br/>Published in September 1883 a month before George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition.<br/><br/>The Green Ray was something of a departure for Verne a love story set in Scotland wherein a girl refuses to marry the man her uncles have chosen for her unless she sees the mysterious "green ray" which would tell her it is true love. After numerous failed attempts the phenomenon eventually becomes visible but the couple gazing into each other's eyes miss it. Green flashes or rays are actual optical phenomena that occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise when a green spot is visible for a short period of time above the sun or a green ray shoots up from the sunset point. It is usually observed from a low altitude where there is an unobstructed view of the horizon such as on the ocean. <br/><br/>Taves & Michaluk V023. Myers 31. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883 unknown books
1883106061883. Translated from the French by Mary de Hauteville. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1883. 32 pp ads dated Nov 1882. Original ochre cloth pictorially decorated in brown black and green. First British Edition and first edition in English. This tale is a bit different from many of Verne's -- a love story sited in Scotland though as always with its share of scientific imponderables a girl refuses to marry the man her uncles have chosen for her unless she sees the mysterious "green ray" which would tell her it is true love. The front cover shows Helena and Oliver with eyes fixed upon one another while the crowd behind them has all eyes fixed upon "the green ray." This British edition was published in September 1883 -- a month before George Munro's pirated version in his wrappered "Seaside Library"; there was no American hardbound edition of this Verne tale until 1965. In our experience THE GREEN RAY is one of the very few toughest UK first editions of Jules Verne to find today: why we do not know but several others that followed THE GREEN RAY are close in scarcity KERABAN THE INFLEXIBLE of 1884 MATHIAS SANDORF of 1886 A LOTTERY TICKET of 1886 THE CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS of 1887 NORTH AGAINST SOUTH of 1887 THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE of 1890 A FAMILY WITHOUT A NAME of 1890 and FOUNDLING MICK of 1895. This copy is in ochre cloth; the one other color we have seen is mauve-grey -- both with the same pictorial design mauve-grey we have seen both with and without gilt pages edges; ochre we have seen only without as here. The ad catalogue in this copy is dated November 1882 -- almost a year before publication -- which is the earliest GREEN RAY ad catalogue we have seen the others being Sept 1883 and Oct 1884. This is a very good copy quite attractive externally but recased within its original binding with stiffened spine and with black tape along the original endpapers' hinges; there is an 1899 school prize inscription on the front endpaper verso. Taves & Michaluk V023; Myers 31. unknown books
1881164630New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1881. Octavo two volumes: pp. i-v vi vii viii 1 2-244 16-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear; i-v vi vii viii 1-3 4-254 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "Fall of 1882" inserted at rear flyleaves at front and rear of both volumes 43 inserted plates with illustrations by Leon Benett and inserted folding map in part I 36 inserted plates with illustrations by Leon Benett and inserted folding map in part II original pictorial bevel-edged brown part I and green part II cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold cream endpapers in both volumes. First American hardcover editions. The Scribner editions utilized the plates of the 1881-1882 Sampson Low editions. A translation of LA JANGADA: HUIT CENTS LIEUES SUR L'AMAZONE 1881. Adventure novel comprising a narrative of an 800-league voyage down the Amazon River on a giant raft 1000 feet long and 60 feet wide comprising a floating village and a crew of eighty. Bleiler 1948 p. 274. Myers 28. Taves and Michaluk V022. Early owner's name and address in pencil and their small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper of part II. Spine ends and corner tips of both volumes lightly worn bright very good copies with tight inner hinges. #164630 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
