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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A Family Without a Name.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891 [1890]. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 172; 134 [34]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1890. With 79 of the 80 wood engraved plates by Tiret-Bognet, including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and black, white and..... More
A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Stories.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Adventure and Romance] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.176; 96 [32]. With a black and white half-tone illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With..... More
Adrift in The Pacific.
London: Readers Library, n.d. [1927]. Reader's Library edition, by special arrangement with Sampson Low. Publisher's gilt-embossed cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Some expected toning to cheap paper, fragile jacket with a few chips and tears, notably to foot of spine with partial loss of imprint. Nonetheless a remarkable survival of 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
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
The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. [Science fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vii; 292. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine, gilt titles and colour blocking to upper board. Illustrated with twenty-four halftone plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Ex-libris stamp front-paste down, spotting throughout, toning and spotting to..... More
The Clipper of the Clouds.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., [n.d.] c.1914. [Adventure fiction] VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.176 [16]. Advertisements to rear. With numerous coloured halftone illustrations. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, titles and designs in brown and black to upper, titles and designs in gilt to spine. Green pictorial endpapers..... 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
Michael Strogoff. The Courier of the Czar [also includes 'The Mutineers'].
New York: Scribners, 1895. [Classic adventure] 'Uniform Edition'. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.377. With 89 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece. Bound in publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in gilt and black. Nominal edgewear, some sunning to spine, and hinges split. Lightly toned throughout. Small tear to page margin pp.17-33. Very..... More
Round the World in Eighty Days.
London: Julian Wylie, n.d. Sixpenny novel paperback format. 8vo. Publisher's lavishly illustrated card wraps. Minor edgewear and some soiling to white spine and rear panel. Strong and bright with no loss, a very good copy. More
Texar the Southerner: a Tale of the American Civil War.
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.[4] 142 [2]. With an illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles, and orange and green decoration to spine and upper. With the illustrated..... More
A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1940s]. [Adventure and Romance] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with jacket. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.176; 96. With a black and white half-tone illustrated frontispiece and other vignette illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth titled in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 4s. Contents..... More
Dr. Ox, and Other Stories. [A Drama in the Air; A Drama in Mexico, the First Ships of the Mexican Navy; Master Zacharius, or the Clockmaker who lost his Soul; and Doctor Ox].
London: Arco Publications, 1964. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and white dust-jacket priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Original price to back cover crossed out with a black marker. Light..... More
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