The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.

VERNE, Jules [Gabriel] (1828-1905), [EVANS, I.O., translator].

London: Arco Publications with Bernard Hanison, 1959. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST THUS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 170 [4]; pp.176. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece illustration from the original editions, and a publisher's catalogue request card loose to preliminaries. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jackets originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker to volume I. A pair of lovely fine copies. A feast of steam-powered elephants and revenge, set in India ten years after the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857. First published in French in 1880, and translated into English between 1880 and 1881. Item #57483

Price: £250.00