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Jules Verne | First Editions
1828 - 1905
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) was a French author from Nantes often described as a pioneer of the science-fiction genre. His output of "speculative fiction" was enormous numbering such major highlights as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) to name but a few. Verne is one of those enormously prolific writers of "scientific" fiction whose vision of the future (and indeed of the potential of the present) often verges on spooky prescience. Everything from the nuclear submarine to space travel to aqualungs and monorails could conceivably be laid at his door. His work is occasionally criticised for its slightly prejudiced tendencies; women tended to be virtually invisible, ethnic minorities were often used for either overtly sinister or ridiculously comic effect and his novels often give the impression that somewhere he had a list of national stereotypes he was sticking a pin into.
See below our stock of Jules Verne First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Contribute [to THE STRAND MAGAZINE]; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Volumes I to VI.
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. Large octavo, with illustrations. 6 volumes. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes of tan half calf, gilt, with marbled sides and brown morocco title labels, edges speckled red. Some light occasional thumbing and marking within; externally fine. An attractive copy in a robust recent leather..... More
Master of The World.
UK, Electric Modern Printing, Limited, Manchester, [1961]. FIRST PRINTING. An original UK quad for the science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan, Folded, condition A (fresh). Approx dimensions 40x30 inches, landscape format, (will be despatched rolled, in tube)..... More
Contribute to The STRAND Magazine. The first 14 volumes. Edited by George Newnes.
London: George Newnes, 1891-97. [Literary Magazine] A straight run of FOURTEEN volumes, from vol. I to XIV. Includes the first publication of several novels and stories such as Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and other adventures, plus works by Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, M.P. Shiel, Arthur Morrison and..... More
Contribute to The STRAND Magazine. The first 30 volumes. Edited by George Newnes.
London: George Newnes, 1891-1905. [Literary Magazine] FIRST THIRTY VOLUMES OF THE STRAND. A straight run of 30 volumes, from volume I to XXX. Includes the first publication of several novels and stories such as Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes adventures, plus works..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to X. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, January 1891 to December 1895. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 10 volumes. Large octavo (24 x 18 x 43cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. Recent tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and marbled boards. All edges speckled brown. Occasional spotting;..... More
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co., 1891. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii, 313 [35]. With 80 wood engraved illustrations by George Roux, including a frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; foliate endpapers..... More
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. [Adventure novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 440; [2], blank. With two hundred and fifty illustrations by Riou. Publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth hardcovers, coated brown endpapers. Contents fine, page edges a little toned, cloth a trifle shelfworn. A lovely..... More
Adrift in The Pacific.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited. 1894. [Adventure novel] 'New and Cheaper Edition'. Two volumes in one. Octavo. pp. viii, 151; 142. First published in 1889. In publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth with black-embossed aquatic balloon-escape design. With 11 illustrations, including frontispiece. Mild spotting throughout. Text block a little shaken..... More
The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. [Science fiction] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm) pp.vii; 292. Illustrated with twenty-four full page plates. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine and colour blocking to the front cover. Ink inscription (Christmas 1913) to flyleaf, minor spotting, top corner bumped, cloth mostly fresh..... More
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. 1891. Octavo, pp. viii, 486. Green cloth covers with black and gilt decorations and titles, yellow endpapers. Numerous illustrations throughout the book. Covers have some bumping to the tail and headcap and rubbing to all edges. Front and back endpapers have split along..... More
Five Weeks In a Balloon. Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen. Translated from the French by 'Willian Lackland'.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company. 1874. [Adventure novel] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 345; [3], blank. With forty-eight heliotype illustrations. Second printing of this edition, the first being 1873. Publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth hardcovers, coated brown endpapers. Contents very clean, bookplate (partially removed) to pastedown, discreet ownership stamp..... More
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Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar [together with] The Mutineers. A Romance of Mexico. Translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston, revised by Julius Chambers.
New York, NY: Scribner Armstrong and Co., 1877. [Adventure novels] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo ( 21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 377; [2], blank; [2], map; [1], blank; [6], advertisements. Illustrated with frontispiece, half-title vignette, 90 plates and a double-page map. Publisher's gilt-pictorial terracotta cloth hardcovers, bevelled edges, coated yellow endpapers. Contents..... More
Their Island Home. The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson.
New York: G. Howard Watt. 1924. First US edition. Octavo, pp. x, 272. Dark red cloth covers with coloured illustration to the front cover and green titles to cover and spine. Some wear to the bottom and top edges of the covers, small area of red staining from where the..... More
Adrift In the Pacific.
London: Readers Library n.d [1920s]. Adventure novel. Small. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-decorated burgundy cloth in Albert Morrow -designed pictorial jacket with wraparound image. Cheap paper toned as usual, some stiffness from lack of handling. Near fine, in crisp wrapper. 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
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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 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
Doctor Ox, And Other Stories. Translated from The French of Jules Verne by George M. Towle.
Boston, James R. Osgood and Company. 1874. First Authorized US Edition, published as part of the Saunterer's Series. 18mo, pp.292; [1], advertisement; [2], blank. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth embossed with gilt yacht and titles, coated brown endpapers, all edges red. Owner name else internally clean, spine ends chipped..... 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
The Field of Ice.
London and New York, George Routledge and Sons. 1876 (probably printed 1875). SEPARATE EDITION, FIRST EXPORT copy, previously published as 'Captain Hatteras,' containing the two parts 'At the North Pole' and 'The Field of Ice' This is the edition with the 'London and New York' imprint noted by Myers- the..... 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
A Floating City
London: Arco Publications. 1964. Being part of the popular Arco uniform 'Fitzroy' series reissued in the 1960s. Second printing. Crown octavo, pp.191. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Contemporary inscription to pastedown, a few inked 'tick' marks to titles on rear panel. A near fine copy. More
Hector Servadac, Or the Career of a Comet.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1908. Fantasy adventure. 'Uniform Edition'. Octavo, pp.370. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in gilt and black. Nominal edgewear, spine ends chipped, some age-related toning to spine,gift note in ink to pastedown. Very good. More