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Title |
Author |
Price |
| 1889 |
THE ADVENTURES OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA |
Verne, Jules |
$ 450.00 |
Verne, Jules. THE ADVENTURES OF A CHINAMAN IN CHINA. From the French... by Virginia Champlin. With Fifty Illustrations. Boston: Lee and Shepard / New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1889. 8 pp undated ads. Original grey-green cloth pictorially decorated in white, black and gold.
Early Edition -- highly sought-after for its magnificent pictorial binding. Lee & Shepard had published the first-but-unillustrated edition in English (THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN) in September 1879 -- which was quickly followed by other translations for George Munro's Seaside Library and for E. P. Dutton. This 1889 edition, with the "Adventures" title, came out in Lee & Shepard's "White Black & Gold Series" (though there is no mention of that fact in the book); it is a later impression of their 1879 edition, which is why the page headline retains the book's earlier "Tribulations" title. This 1889 edition is Lee & Shepard's first illustrated edition, as it contains the fifty full-page plates by Benett that had first appeared in Dutton's edition. "The front cover of this beautiful edition shows the characters on the junk 'Sam-Yep' before a golden sunset in the dead calm at sea" [T&M]; the spine shows a 'rickshaw before another sunset.
This copy is in grey-green cloth (we have also seen coffee brown and chocolate brown); it is in near-fine condition, with wear limited to one small rubbed spot on the front cover. Taves & Michaluk V020.
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