[Rarebooks] FS: Early Jules Verne 1st Edition

[Michael John Thompson]

Note: $1,500 less 20% is actually $1,200.00, last I checked. /mjt




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