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| Published |
Title |
Author |
Price |
| 1876 |
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND |
Verne, Jules |
$ 13500.00 |
the first combined edition in the English language
Verne, Jules. THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The Modern Robinson Crusoe. Translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston. Complete in Three Parts. I. Dropped from the Clouds. II. Abandoned. III. The Secret of the Island. 145 Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1876. 4 pp undated ads. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt.
First Combined Edition in English. Scribner Armstrong, Verne's authorized American publisher, had published these three parts over the course of several months beginning in November 1875. At some time between then and the end of March 1876 (when this three-in-one volume was reviewed in the New York Daily Tribune), the three volumes were combined into this single volume -- with separate pagination as in the three separate books. (Three separate volumes were also published in the U.K., but no combined edition like this.) The front cover illustration, of the castaways peering through a spyglass from the mouth of their cave dwelling, comes from the original third volume, THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND; the spine illustration comes from the second volume, ABANDONED.
Why this consolidated edition has become so scarce we do not know; perhaps few copies were produced in this manner, or perhaps it is simply that few copies have survived (since it is a volume of formidable bulk, held together in a binding of only average strength). This is only the fourth copy we have seen in over 25 years (and the other three were green).
In any event, this is a bright, just-about-fine copy (the merest hint of wear at the foot of the spine, a little rubbing of the spine gilt); the original endpapers remain firm and uncracked. There is a Christmas 1876 inscription (from "Grandma") at the top of the title page. Taves & Michaluk V013; Myers 42 ("a very rare edition!").
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