From The Earth To The Moon
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Norwalk: The Easton Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2002). Hardcover. No signatures. Very slight rubbing to ends of spine. ; xiii, [5], 206 pages + colour plates. Full leather boards with gilt decoration. Gilt page edges. Page dimensions: 244mm x 163mm. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
Synopsis
From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9047
- Title
- From The Earth To The Moon
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Illustrator
- Shore, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk
- Date Published
- (2002)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...