[Rarebooks] fs: Jules Verne, SciFi, 1878

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9829 )  Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. HECTOR 
SERVADAC [aka, OFF ON A COMET].
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. Original cloth, Octavo, x, [2], 
370, [2] pages, black and white wood engraved plates. Very good.
      The first illustrated American edition of this fantastic tale by 
Verne, in which several people from different countries on earth are pulled 
onto a closely passing comet. They must find a way to return to earth, which 
they do two years later by balloon. Originally published in 1877. The 
illustrations are by Paul de Philippoteaux and consist of 92 plates engraved 
on wood by Laplante. Philippoteaux also painted the enormous cycloramas of 
the American Civil War, including the one remaining at Gettysburg. Bound in 
rust-colored cloth over beveled boards with elaborate decoration in gilt and 
black to upper board and spine. Binding shows rubs with some mild fraying to 
cloth at extremities, some light foxing to endpapers. Textblock is mildly 
browned with an occasional leaf showing a finger mark here or there. 
Remarkably, the hinges are not cracked. All in all a very nice copy of this 
early and bold science fiction effort.    $500.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9829.jpg

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