Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar [and: 'The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico']
Jules Verne
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, NY ca. 1880, 1880
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Hardcover
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. . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj, decorative green cloth. Vg condition. An early, undated, thus not first American edition. Covers lightly rubbed/soiled, contents clean, free of writing or marking. Binding sturdy and tight, with no cracking at endpaper seams. 371 total pages, "The Mutineers" comprising about 25 pages. Includes an undated publisher's catalogue at rear. literature 19th century history 19th, Century, History, Literature. Seller Inventory # 1240718.21
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Title: Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar [...
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY ca. 1880
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar [and] The Mutineers: a Romance of Mexico
Published by
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883, 1883
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
[Russian Adventure] 'New Edition'. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 377 [1]. With a folding map and illustrations by Ferat and Barbant, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Ink names to endpapers. Contents generally clean. Binding shows acceptable wear with joints rubbed, corners pushed, frayed at spine tips, inner paper joints cracked as usual. Very good. Verne's classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire, which was first published in English in 1877; also includes Verne's novella 'The Mutineers' which was omitted from most printings after 1912. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid, M.A. (1912-2009) writer, film-maker and cinema historian, and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne. Seller Inventory # 68403
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Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar [and] The Mutineers: a Romance of Mexico
Published by
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883, 1883
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
[Russian Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 377 [1]. With a folding map and 89 engraved plates by Ferat and Barbant, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Rough bookplate to front pastedown, with related pencil ownership to fly-leaf. Upper hinge split, but quite firm. Browning and a little spotting to preliminaries. Map partly split along one fold. An adventure novel set in Russia, in which the imperial courier must race across Siberia to deliver a message from Moscow to Irkutsk. Published together with an early Verne short story for the first time in 1876. Seller Inventory # 57409
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Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar; The Mutineers. A Romance of Mexico.
Published by
Scribner, Armstrong & Company, New York, 1877
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First US Edition. xi, [3], 377, [11] p. 22 cm. Frontispiece and half title vignette. 88 other b&w plates. Green cloth with black and gold impressing, bevelled edges. Front cover shows Strogoff on a speeding horse. Cloth rubbed, corners and spine tail worn, spine head softened, small dark spot on rear board. Plate opposite p. 174 has blue crayon, slightly marking the picture itself. Stains to margins of pp. 316-317 also affecting surrounding pages. Other stains throughout, worse towards rear. A few signatures jutting out slightly. Wrapped in mylar, removed for photos. Despite not being his usual science fiction, this historical tale of adventure taking place during a Siberian revolt is considered by many to be one of Verne's finest novels. While not about science, a scientific phenomenon, the Leidenfrost effect, is used as a plot device when he hero's evaporating tears save the hero him from being blinded. The story has been adapted many times for film, TV and cartoon entertainment, even adapted into a play by Verne himself and Adolphe d'Ennery. The role of Chambers as secondary translator is interesting. During the translation by Kingston for the British edition, it was discovered that one chapter, "The Marshes of the Baraba," was almost untranslatable because of the knowledge of entomology it demanded. Chambers visited Verne himself at Amiens and had the author go over the text of this highly scientific section. He was impressed by Verne's library of insect books and the specimens he had collected from the French vice consular agent at Tomsk. At rear is the novella "The Mutineers" followed by 6 p. of publisher's ads. Myers 40. Taves & Michaluk V015. Seller Inventory # 146906
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MICHAEL STROGOFF The Courier of the Czar; THE MUTINEERS A Romance of Mexico
Published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1877
Used
Hardcover
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st UK edition. ix, iii, 341pp Folding map frontis. Translated by W.H.G. Kingston; Bound with The MUTINEERS pp 342-377. iii, 24pp [pub. cat dated October 1876]. Original purple gilt decorated illustrated cloth decorated in black and gilt with bevelled edges. Numerous illustrations throughout.The rare first UK edition [2 months preceding the US edition]. The title-page states 1877 but the book was advertised in October 1876 and released in December 1876 in the UK. A wrapper US edition by Leslie was pub. in October 1876. This UK edition is very rare with some copies having a variant green cloth. The front cover has 'The Courier of The Czar' under the main title [this is sometimes omitted]. The spine is a trifle sunned and has the variant gilt panel behind the title. The rear board has a blind stamped publishers monogram and a blind ruled decorative border. A very nice copy with the original pale end-papers with cracks. A large ink owners inscription to the inside front board with C. Maude Dec. 77 heavily written. Seller Inventory # Pa101
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Michael Strogoff The Courier of the Czar / The Mutineers; A Romance of Mexico
Published by
Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York, 1877
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st American. First American Edition in reddish brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled edges. Frontispiece, half title page vignette, two pages of maps, and 90 illustrations. Published with The Mutineers. Translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston, revised by Julius Chambers. 6 pages of ads at rear. Taves & Michaluk V015; Myers 40. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. (1877), 377 pages. Fine. An exceptional copy with modest edge wear, wear at tips and soft spine ends, bookseller pencils. Seller Inventory # 193964
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Michael Strogoff The Courier of the Czar / The Mutineers; A Romance of Mexico
Published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, London, 1877
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British Edition in brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, bordered and with publisher's device stamped in blind on rear, all edge gilt, beveled edges. Tissue paper guarded frontispiece, two folding maps and numerous additional full page plates. Published with The Mutineers. Translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston. 24 page catalog dated October, 1876 at rear. Taves & Michaluk V015; Myers 40. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington (1877), 377 pages. A Very Good copy; bright cloth with modest rubbing, shaken, light fraying at tips, small stain on rear. Hinges cracked but holding, ink writing on front pastedown. Seller Inventory # 193963
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