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Published by PORTER & COATES, PHILADELPHIA, 1873
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: VERY GOOD. Wear to top and bottom of spine.Cracking to binding on title page.Black and white frontispiece." Presented by the New Durnham Baptist Sunday School Christmas 1887" stamp on front free end page. Signed by owner. Foxing to pages.Bumped corners. First American Edition. Slight staining to rear end pages. DATE PUBLISHED: 1873 EDITION: 315.
Published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1873
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. xvi, 315 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece and 53 other full-page plates. Also an unlisted illustration of Verne's yacht the "Saint Michel" across from p xi. In-text illustration on p. 297. Green cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Spine deteriorated with chipped ends and holes in cloth. Corners worn. Front endpapers have signatures. Some slight chips to front free endpaper. Foxing and stains throughout. Signature on title page. Scarce 1873 printing of Verne's most popular novel. The book that provoked an interest in world circumference travel records that lasted to the age of space travel, a period of nearly 100 years. Lengthy introduction by Adrien Marx. Myers 54. Taves & Michaluk V011. First Illustrated US Edition with publication notice on title verso and 1873 printed at bottom of title. Printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the Sampson Low British first edition but with Osgood's title page.