[Rarebooks] fs: Verne, Jules. Hector Servadac, 1st US, 1878
Back Creek Books
rock at backcreekbooks.com
Fri Sep 26 09:59:07 EDT 2008
Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9829 ) Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. HECTOR
SERVADAC.
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. Housed in a custom-built clamshell
box with gilt-titled spine label. $500.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9829.jpg
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Rock
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