[Rarebooks] FS: Early Jules Verne 1st Edition

[Michael John Thompson]

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VERNE, Jules. IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS: A 
Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant 
and the Brig Britannia and of The Adventures of 
His Children and Friends in His Discovery and 
Rescue. Illustrated with One Hundred and Seventy 
Engravings. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 
1873. First Edition, First Printing. Large 
octavo, original green cloth decorated in black 
and gilt, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers. 
Heavily illustrated throughout. The first 
American edition, and the first edition in 
English of Verne's fifth book, originally 
published in France in 1867 as LES ENFANTS DU 
CAPTAINE GRANT. Neat, clean repairs to the inner 
hinges, general very light wear to the corners 
and spine tips; a very nice copy, very good or 
better. Issued in several colours of cloth, both 
with and without gilt edges; this is certainly a 
prefered binding. ¶ Fantastic adventure novel. 
The contents of a shark's stomach contain a 
bottle containing notes written in several 
languages, which together reveal the partial 
whereabouts of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship 
The Britannia was lost over two years prior. The 
lattitude of his location is known but not the 
longitude, and so a group of searchers goes and 
traces the 37th parallel across the southern 
hemisphere. The first edition contains all three 
parts of the tale, it was later republished - 
usually separately - under the titles VOYAGE 
ROUND THE WORLD: South America / Australia / New 
Zealand or as THE MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT / ON THE 
TRACK and AMONG THE CANNIBALS. The complete work 
as issued here was not published in the UK, it is 
one of the few of Verne's novels which did not 
get picked up by Sampson Low.        $1,500.00

Net price would be less trade discount of 20%, 
i.e., $1,250.00, post extra at cost.

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