A Floating City, And The Blockade Runners
by Verne, Jules
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. publisher's brown decorated cloth with beveled edges. Very good
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1874. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown decorated cloth with beveled edges. Very good. 286 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Four leaves of adverts at rear. Forty two illustrations. The two tales, the first based on his own experience on a transatlantic voyage on the Great Eastern, the largest iron ship ever constructed. The second fictional novel takes place during the American Civil War. MYERS 22. Very bright, fresh copy front cover elaborately decorated in gilt, slight wear to backstrip extremities and corners, owner inscription free front endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22169
- Title
- A Floating City, And The Blockade Runners
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. publisher's brown decorated cloth with beveled edges. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Scribner, Armstrong & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- Science Fiction
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