New York: Scribner Armstrong and Co., 1874 [but actually 1873]. First American edition, first printing of one of Jules Verne's most famous novels. Published autumn 1873 but dated to the coming year on the title page. viii, 384 pp., illustrated with 52 wood engravings. Bound in publisher's orange-red cloth with..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. First British edition, first printing of Jules Verne's adventure story inspired by the author's yacht trip from Tangiers to Malta. viii, 192, 199, [1], 32 pp. with advertising list at rear dated October 1886. Profusely illustrated with wood engravings after drawings by..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. First American edition. Bound in publisher's elaborately stamped green cloth over bevel-edged boards. Near Fine with light wear to cloth at extremities, rear bottom corner heavily bumped, light worming, rear cloth faintly stained visible in raking light. Several stains to textblock edge occasionally..... More
Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham, 1879. First American edition. (Also the first in the English language. Title page dated 1880 but actually printed in October of 1879.) Original brown cloth with gilt on spine, black lettering. pp. vi, 271, (ix). Very Good+ condition. A...... More
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873. First British edition the first edition in the English language of Jules Verne's masterpiece of imagination. First published in French in 1870, this first edition in English was actually printed in late 1872, although the title page is dated 1873 as called..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. Extremely scarce first American trade edition, previously published by Osgood via subscription only. viii, 303 pp., profusely illustrated with wood engravings. Bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, all edges speckled red, pink endpapers. Near..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873 [but actually 1872]. Extremely scarce first American trade edition, previously published by Osgood via subscription only, published in late 1872 with the title page dated to the coming year. viii, 303 pp., printed on speckled wove paper and profusely illustrated with wood engravings..... More
Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873. First printing of the Smith edition with title page dated 1873, preceded in America by the very scarce Osgood edition. Second and usual issue lacking "The End" on page 303; preceded in America by the Osgood edition, of which all but an estimated..... More
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Madrid: Establecimiento Tipografico de Tomas Rey y Compania, 1869. First edition in Spanish, and the earliest edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea known in book form, preceding the French and English editions. Two parts in one volume, 247, 287 pp. + 2 page index, with illustrations by Riou..... More