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True Sign Publishing House, 2024. Paperback. New. 196 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.45 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. A volume in The Jules Verne Library. Translated by Henry Frith, printed by the Crystal Palace Press. Publishers blue cloth with cover illustrations front and spine. This volume with the bookseller stamp for Doxey, Importers, San Francisco. Undated copy, later 1880s to early 1890s. ; 5" x 7"; 270, [2] (ads) pp; William Doxey would become a printer and later publish The Lark. ; Covers worn, discolored spine and area of front panel, waterstaining at spine top seen only from outside the book (not visible on pages), prior owner name stamped on FFEP. Spine cocked, hinges remain solid, a few creased corners, one with a tiny loss, foxing to page edges. .

Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Visible splitting to joints, exposing binding. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached; much lighter to hinges. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild rubbing, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1895. Hardcover. Fair. Scarce, every boy's library edition of Verne's popular novellas. Red decorative cloth covers. With publishers advertisements to end-papers and rear. No date but between 1890 to 1900. Toning to covers and spine. Spine slightly cocked. Marking to covers. Previous owner's name to end-papers. Very light foxing to page edges. Contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Fair+

UK: Sampson Low, 1928. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition C1928. Un-Dated. Includes the un-common wrapper. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good with edges rubbed and nicked. Small loss to spine tips and edge. Light soiling to wrapper. A few small closed tears to edges. Price clipped. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14915

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. First of this American 'Uniform Edition, Illustrated'. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. bright red cloth, decorated front cover and spine. Spine slightly dulled and darkened. Front lower corner stain does not penetrate to endpaper or text. Now in protective mylar. contemporary notice of Verne's death tipped inside front cover.

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London., 1882. Third U.K. edition. [Translated by Mary Marston.] Octavo. pp iv, 286. 42 black and white plates. Period binding of half tan calf with raised bands, intricate gilt decoration to spine, morocco title-label, marbled boards, edges and endpapers.On the title-page someone has written the name of the translator. Two newspaper cuttings are affixed to the front endpapers. A bit of foxing here and there. Very good indeed.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., c.1920s. 1st eds. thus. Nice copies. small octavo. hardbacks in decorated cloth 310, 254, 299, 304, 263, 252, 300, 96 + 200, 232, 244, 352pp., AuthorÕs Copyright Editions. Some flecking & light edge-wear to red & black decorated boards o/w quite nice vcopies & internally very good indeed

New York, NY: Scribner Armstrong, 1875. Good. With 42 illustrations. Scribner Armstrong, 1875. Brown cloth with elaborate pictorial boards and spine. 42 illustrations. Good+. Head and heel worn evenly @1/4 inch. Corners lightly worn. Front endpaper missing, contemporary former owner signature. At the time of its publication, the novel enjoyed a similar level of popularity as Around the World in Eighty Days. The first UK and US editions of the novel appeared in 1874. Jules Férat provided the original illustrations for the novel.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1875. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". Jules Ferat. The second U.S. edition of this popular novel and short story by French adventure writer Jules Verne, complete with plates by Jules Ferat throughout. The second U.S. edition, published the year after the first English language U.K. and U.S. editions.A riveting adventure novel and accompanying short story by Jules Verne published in one volume, 'A Floating City' and 'The Blockade Runners'.Illustrated with a frontispice, vignette title page, and forty-one plates.Collated, complete.The first novel following the life a woman onboard the SS Great Eastern alongside her abusive husband, who finds out that the man she loves is also on board.This novel was incredibly popular during Verne's lifetime, enjoying a similar level of popularity as 'Around the World in Eighty Days'.The second tale in this volume, The Blockade Runners', is set during the American Civil War and following the exploits of a British merchant who must… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875 . Cloth. Good. 8" by 6". Not Stated. The second English language edition of these two thrilling tales from Jules Verne. Illustrated throughout, and in the publisher's decorative pictorial cloth. The second English language edition of this work, published the year after the first English edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-one plates. Collated, complete.The first of the two tales present in this volume is 'A Floating City', telling the tale of a woman onboard the SS Great Eastern alongside her abusive husband, who finds out that the man she loves is also on board.The second tale is 'The Blockade Runners', set during the American Civil War and following the exploits of a British merchant who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbour in South Carolina.With a forty page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated October 1874.An early edition of this work from the French novelist of best-selling adventure novels, best known for… Read More

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875. Cloth. Good. Brown cloth with embossed design and slightly rubbed gilt illustration on front and spine, very tiny tears at spine top and bottom edges, badly worn at tips, 286 pages plus an illustration on 287. Good +.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). Jules Ferat. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Spine and boards bumped and scuffed. Mild foxing on some pages; does not interfere with text. Pencial marks on FEP. Please see photos as part of condition report 1874 1st Edition , US Edition A FLOATING CITY AND THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS By Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. Verne is… Read More