[a handsome copy] Translated from the French. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. 32 pp ads dated October 1872. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled, all edges gilt. First British Edition, also the first edition in the English language. Three Englishmen... and.....
The Courier of the Czar. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First Illustrated (and first hard-bound) American Edition of this historical.....
Verne, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF. Translated by W.H.G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Edition of this historical tale of adventure taking place during a......
![Item #14627 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. [consisting of:] Part I. DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS. [plus:] ...](/pictures/thumb/14627.jpg?v=1606751762)
[a handsome set] [Together, three volumes.] Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Second Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. 3 pp undated ads in Part III. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First English Edition, second impression, of all three volumes that were.....
With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black and red, all page edges gilt. First British Edition of this adventure tale taking place during the American Civil War. This is the tale of the antagonism between Burbank (an anti-slavery Northerner.....
85 Illustrations par L. Benett. 12 Grandes Gravures en Chromotypographie. 1 Carte en couleurs. Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie., n.d. [1893]. 8 pp ads dated 1893-1894. Original red cloth decorated in many colors, all edges gilt. First Illustrated Edition of the tale translated into English as FOUNDLING MICK (published by.....
[complete in Boy's Own issues] Complete in six monthly issues (26 weekly issues) of: THE BOY'S OWN PAPER. London: The "Leisure Hour" Office, November 1884 - April 1885. Original orange printed wrappers. First Appearance in serial form of one of Jules Verne's less-known tales -- published in book form as.....
Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger. Translated from the French by Ellen Frewer. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Illustrated Edition, actually printed in London. In mid-1875 Osgood published the first edition in English, unillustrated, as a......
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1881. 1 page undated ads (with prices in sterling). Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated Edition of this curious tale about a Chinaman, Kin-Fo, who is convinced he needs.....
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881. 1 page undated ads (with prices in sterling). Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First Illustrated Edition of this curious tale... Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for.....
![Item #15091 A Voyage Round the World. [In Three Volumes:] SOUTH AMERICA | AUSTRALIA | NEW...](/pictures/thumb/15091.jpg?v=1661355481)
With 71 / 48 / 46 Illustrations by Riou. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1876 / 1877 / 1877. 16 pp undated ads in third volume. Original terra-cotta / green / terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First fully-illustrated (and first hardbound) British edition of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. 12 pp undated ads. Original light blue-grey cloth florally decorated in red, light blue, green and black. First Edition of one of the American bestsellers of the Nineteenth Century. Lew Wallace, a Hoosier, was a prominent military man in the Mexican War and in.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1897. 40 pp ads dated March 1897. Original red cloth. First Edition of this collection of seventeen strange stories, mostly along a science fiction vein. The title story involves a schoolteacher who disappears in an explosion in the school's chemistry lab, has a nine-day out-of-body experience.....
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales -- "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come" and "The.....
London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. 16 pp ads dated March 1894. Original violet cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Wilde's satirical play about upper-class social scandal, which consisted of 500 copies (so stated -- half as many copies as the following year's THE.....
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1887. 2 pp Vol I undated ads. Original sage-green cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt. First Edition. The novella LADY GRACE occupies the first volume plus almost all of the second volume; three other tales fill out the rest. In 1836 Ellen Price had.....
With a Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original pea green cloth. First Edition of this very early work by Yeats (his fifth), a volume of Irish country tales often with supernatural aspects -- Yeats's "most creative attempt to render his.....
With Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. 44 pp ads dated January 1870. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this historical novel, loosely based upon King Henry V of England and his "caged lion," James I of Scotland. This is a very good copy, perhaps near-fine, slightly.....
