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A Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of the Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue
by Verne, Jules Gabriel (1828-1905)
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About This Item
[2 blanks]+620+[4, ads]+[2, blank] pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's full brick cloth, spine and front stamped in gilt and black; all edges trimmed and gilt. (Taves &Michaluk V005) First American edition (and first edition in English).
This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. It is one of the few of Verne's works that Sampson Low never published in England. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately, either as Voyage Round the World, or as The Mysterious Document/On the Track and Among the Cannibals. This rare copy with all page edges gilt, one of very few known of. In fact there were very few American editions of any Verne title that was available with all edges gilt.
Condition:
Rear hinge beginning but still sound; couple of previous owner signatures and one label to front flyleaf; faint, marginal spot- and thumb-soiling scattered throughout else very good to fine.
This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. It is one of the few of Verne's works that Sampson Low never published in England. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately, either as Voyage Round the World, or as The Mysterious Document/On the Track and Among the Cannibals. This rare copy with all page edges gilt, one of very few known of. In fact there were very few American editions of any Verne title that was available with all edges gilt.
Condition:
Rear hinge beginning but still sound; couple of previous owner signatures and one label to front flyleaf; faint, marginal spot- and thumb-soiling scattered throughout else very good to fine.
Extended Description and Notes
In Search of the Castaways (French: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant , lit. 'The Children of Captain Grant') is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Édouard Riou. In 1876, it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled A Voyage Round The World . The three volumes were subtitled South America , Australia , and New Zealand . As often with Verne, English translations have appeared under different names; another edition has the overall title Captain Grant's Children and has two volumes subtitled The Mysterious Document and Among the Cannibals .
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- Title
- A Voyage Round the World In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of the Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue
- Author
- Verne, Jules Gabriel (1828-1905)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J B Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1873
- Pages
- [2 blanks]+620+[4, ads]+[2, blank] pages
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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