Michael Strogoff. The Courier of the Czar [also includes 'The Mutineers'].

VERNE, Jules [Gabriel] (1828-1905).

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 good. This edition also includes Verne's short story 'The Mutineers', a Romance of Mexico which was omitted from Scribner's printings after 1912. Item #42118

Taves and Michaluk, p.154-5.

Price: £75.00