Jules Verne
A collection of Verne.
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Salvage from the Cynthia.
London: Arco Publications, 1964. [Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and blue dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6. Price-clipped jacket lightly toned to spine with a few marks. Near fine. A young man, rescued from a shipwreck as..... More
Adrift in The Pacific.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893. [Castaway Adventure] EARLY CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.151 [1]; 142. With engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Upper hinge split..... More
Homeward Bound. Part II of Hector Servadac.
London: Arco Publications, 1965. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and blue dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Gently toned throughout. Original price to back cover crossed out with..... More
Into the Abyss. Part II of Family Without a Name.
London: Arco Publications, 1963. [Historical Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.171 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and orange dust-jacket designed by William Langstaffe, priced at 12/6. Lightly toned to jacket spine. Near fine. The second part of the grand heroic tragedy..... More
The Mysterious Document. Part I of Captain Grant's Children. Including also the first part of On the Track.
London: Arco Publications, 1964. [Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and black dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a lovely fine copy. A message found in a...... More
The Purchase Of The North Pole.
London: Arco Publications, 1966. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink and black dust-jacket, originally priced at 15s, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Gently toned throughout. Price-clipped jacket a little rubbed to edges and sunned..... More
The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
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..... More
Texar the Southerner. Part II of North Against South.
London: Arco Publications, 1963. [French Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and pink dust-jacket designed by Jozef Gross, priced at 12/6, and re-priced with a sticker to 15s. Just a hint of toning to jacket spine..... More
The Blockade Runners.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876. [Historical Adventure] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue in hard covers. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 120 [16]. With 14 engraved plates by Férat and Hildibrand, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Bertrand. Publisher's puce cloth with gilt titles..... More
Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth. [The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa].
Boston, MA: Henry L. Shepard & Co., 1874. [African Adventure] SECOND US 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. Lightly browned throughout. Some..... More
The Tribulations of a Chinaman.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881 [1880]. [French Literature] FIRST FREWER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 262 [4]. With 49 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Some heavy creasing and a...... More
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. [African Adventure] EARLY UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [17]. With nine engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Ferat. Publisher's puce cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt. Repairs to starting hinges. Somewhat..... More
The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893 and 1894. [Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 244; pp.192. With a total of 11 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black..... More
The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 254 [4]. With a folding map and 79 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine, and black titles..... More
Floating Island, or, The Pearl of the Pacific.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1897]. [Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 382 [2]. With 79 illustrated plates including a frontispiece by Benett. Recently re-cased in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and pink and blue decoration to spine and upper, with..... More
The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Science Fiction Adventure] SECOND UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]; pp.viii; 246 [2]. With a total of 98 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and..... More
The Child of the Cavern; or, Strange Doings Underground.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Strange Tale] THIRD UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xii; 246. With 44 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. Publiisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Bookseller's label and..... More
Five Weeks In a Balloon. Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company. 1874. [Adventure novel] EARLY EDITION. 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..... More
The American Gun Club.
New York, NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS, a partial reprint of 'From the Earth to the Moon.' Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 142 [4]. With 24 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Brown-coated endpapers. Some..... More
Five Weeks In a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1890s]. [Science Fiction] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190. With an engraved frontispiece, and a selection of Riou's other illustrations in-text. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt..... More
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, no date [1894]. [Polar Adventure] EARLY UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii, 313 [1]. With a selection of Roux's engraved plates, including a frontispiece. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine and upper board. Remains of prize..... 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
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
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
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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