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Across Thibet. Being A Translation of "De Paris Au Tonking A Travers Le Tibet Inconnu"'
New York: Cassell Publishing Company. 1892. First US edition. Octavo, pp. xiii, 417. Publisher's brown cloth with a bevelled edge. Gilt titles and portrait of a Tibetan to the spine. A evocative rendering of a camel train adorns the front cover under a decorative title. Gilt top edge, other edges..... More
The Revolutions of Portugal, Written in French by the Abbot De Vertot, of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions. Done into English from the last French Edition.
London: Printed for W. Taylor and C. Rivington, 1724. EARLY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; iv; 138; [10]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. In contemporary tan calf boards with blind decoration. Recently re-backed to style with raised bands and gilt titles to a red label on spine. Faint ink..... More
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, First Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 422 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and green endpapers. Fore and lower edge untrimmed. With the first issue dust-jacket showing the exclamation mark at the..... More
Guenevere: Two Poems by William Morris; The Defence of Guenevere; and King Arthur's Tomb.
London: The Fanfrolico Press, May 1930. [Poetry] PRIVATE PRESS LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[48]. With eight in-text collographic illustrations after sketches by Rossetti. Number 249 of 450 copies finely printed in Weiss Antiqua on Barcham Green Vellum paper. Publisher's black cloth with brown paper over the centre of..... More
The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Arctic Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 334. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black and white titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the..... More
The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. [Arctic Adventure] FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 334 [2]. With 100 engraved plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black and gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt. Plain bookplate of Judah Levy to..... More
Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth. [The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa].
Boston, MA: Henry L. Shepard and Co., 1874. [African Adventure] SECOND US EDITION, an unauthorised pirate edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 190 [2]. With 20 wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with titles and decoration in gilt and black to spine and upper. Dark blue endpapers..... More
Hector Servadac.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. [Science Fiction] SECOND ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 370. With numerous engraved plates. Publisher's green cloth with black and gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Sunday School library bookplate to front pastedown. Fly-leaves and frontispiece lost, with rough..... More
Floating Island.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Science Fiction] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 252 [32]. With a black and white half-tone illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the..... More
Godfrey Morgan. A Californian Mystery.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [1924]. [Castaway Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 272 [32]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 2/6. Lacking frontispiece. Bookplate..... More
The Child of the Cavern; or, Strange Doings Underground.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1891. [Strange Tale] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.174. With ten illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black and gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt. Green ink stamp and pencil ownerships to..... More
From The Earth To The Moon Direct in 97 hours 20 Minutes.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. [Science Fiction Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With seven illustrated plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; yellow-coated endpapers. Some repairs to split upper hinge and..... More
A Journey to the North Pole. Author of "the Children of Captain Grant" etc. With 129 Illustrations by Riou.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. [Science Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] iv; 314. With 129 wood engravings by Riou, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's russet cloth with titles and decoration in gilt and black to spine and upper. Two ink ownerships to..... More
The Purchase Of The North Pole. A sequel to "From The Earth To The Moon."
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Science Fiction Adventure] EARLY EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 143 [3]. With 30 engraved plates by Roux, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. School prize..... More
A Journey To The Centre of the Earth.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. [Science Fiction] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6] 305 [1]. With a colour half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Not obviously price-clipped, but lacking a...... More
The Archipelago On Fire.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1920s]. [Historical Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a cheap edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vi; 198 [2]. With a colour illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles, and red, green, blue and pink decoration to spine and upper..... More
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The Chancellor [The Survivors of the Chancellor / The Wreck of The Chancellor].
London: Arco Publications, 1965. FIRST EDITION THUS, being part of the popular Arco uniform 'Fitzroy' series reissued in the 1960s, often featuring amended titles (as with the present volume). Crown octavo, pp.192. Publisher's cloth in a harrowing pictorial dust-jacket. Toning to page edges, some dustiness, spinea touch sunned... More
The Flight to France, or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon: A Tale of the Days of Dumouriez.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Historical Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240 [48]. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket..... More
The Mystery of the Franklin: Mistress Branican.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 360 [52]. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated..... More
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Adventures of Captain Hatteras [being; 'The English at The North Pole' and 'The Ice Desert'].
London, Ward Lock and Co., Ltd., no date [circa 1907]. [Adventure novels] Attractive early omnibus volume of the Polar adventures, with illustrations by Henry Austin. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223. Bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, blocked in colours, titled in gilt, dark blue coated endpapers. Neat owner inscription to verso..... More
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Anomalous Phenomea, together with Homeward Bound [Hector Servadac]
London: Arco Publications. 1965. 2 volumes. FIRST EDITION THUS, being part of the popular Arco uniform 'Fitzroy' series reissued in the 1960s, often featuring amended titles (as with the present volume). Crown octavo, pp.192; pp.192. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jackets. Contemporary inscription to pastedown, a few inked 'tick' marks..... More
The Castle of The Carpathians.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, no date [1905]. New and Cheaper Edition [being the Illustrated Uniform Copyright edition of 1905]. Post octavo, pp.211; [1], imprint; [1], advertisement; [1], blank. Publisher's pictorial cloth blocked in gilt and colours. Ink ownership, 'Boys Brigade' prize label, some thumbing else contents are clean..... More
The Child of The Cavern. Or Strange Doings Underground.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company. [1910]. Classic adventure. 'Author's Illustrated Edition' [most likely the Christmas 1910 'New Illustrated Shilling Series for Boys' noted by Taves and Michaluk]. Crown octavo, pp.174. Bound in publisher decorative red cloth blocked in blue and black, with 'Pears Soap advert to rear cover. Some..... More
Dr. Ox and other Stories.
London, Arco Publications. 1964. First UK Edition, Crown octavo, pp.191. Publisher's dark brown cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. Price-clipped, and with series price to rear obscured by publisher, otherwise a lovely fine copy. 'This volume contains many hitherto unavailable stories by Jules Verne' (from..... More
Five Weeks In a Balloon
London: George Routledge and Sons no date [circa 1920]. One of Verne's 'Extraordinary Travels'. Part of a uniform series of popular fiction. Crown octavo, pp.249; [7], blank. With frontispiece illustration. Publisher's hardcover in original illustrated dust-wrapper. Some toning to cheap materials, jacket with a couple of nicks and short tears..... More