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| Published |
Title |
Author |
Price |
| 1898 |
AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY |
Verne, Jules |
$ 4750.00 |
Jules Verne's homage to Edgar Allan Poe
Verne, Jules. AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY. Translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. Illustrated. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1898. Original pictorial olive green cloth, beveled, all edges gilt.
First British Edition (and first edition in English). Jules Verne wrote this as an original sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838). Captain Len Guy goes to the Antarctic to trace the fate of his brother's ship, which had disappeared with Arthur Gordon Pym aboard. Verne had always been an ardent admirer of Poe, and in 1864 had written a long article on him, "Edgar Poe et Ses Oeuvres."
This tale was first published in French in 1897, as LE SPHINX DES GLACES ("The Sphinx of the Ice"). Sampson Low published this British edition in October 1898. The List of Illustrations designates 17 plates by Roux (after his original French ones), but this copy has many additional ones (likewise by Roux) on slightly glossier paper that is similarly gilt-edged. A month later (though dated 1899) Lippincott published the first American edition, the same translation. Beginning at about the same time, the tale was serialized in Boy's Own as CAPTAIN LEN GUY.
This copy is in olive green cloth decorated in black, dark grey, light grey and white; it is a deluxe copy, with page edges gilded and with beveled boards. Deluxe copies also appear in red cloth (no priority), and there are blue-grey copies without beveled boards or gilt edges. The volume is in near-fine condition (endpapers cracked as usual for such a hefty volume, but very little soil or wear); the half-title bears a long penciled note about the illustrations. Taves & Michaluk VO46.
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