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Published by London; Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892, 'Author's Illustrated Edition', 160pp, 7 b/w plates,, 1892
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. hardback, 8vo, owner's inscription on title page, page edges browned, inner hinges cracked and weak, binding shaken, red cloth, black pictorial decs, Pears davert on rear cover, covers heavily rubbed, Fair condition.
Published by Sampson, Low, Marston,, London:, 1907
Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Twelfth edition. vi, [iv], 323pp, with 26 black and white illustrations. [The prelims have two listings of the illustrations, one of which is for a copy with only 15 of the plates.] Pages clean and fresh: some foxing to the closed fore-edge, encroaching onto the edges of some pages. In the original pictorial binding of olive cloth, very bright and clean: almost like new, and with slight puckering of the spine ends.
Published by St. James Magazine, London, 1873
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. The Complete Text Of The Louis Mercier-Eleanor King Translation, Extracted From The St. James Magazine Issues Of July Through December 1873, Published Anonymously In 28 Chapters With All Illustrations, Predating The October 1873 First English Hardcover Edition Published By Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. In October ( Reported In The Atheneum #2398 Of October 11, 1873 As A New Book From Them). Pages Have No Titles To Identify The Source, But Page Numbers At Top And Codes At Bottom Of Pages Match Those For The St. James Issues Held At The University Of Illinois At Urbana- Champaign And Reported Thru Hathitrust. Pages Bound In Quarter Leather With All But First Four Chapters Of Verne's "Three Englishmen And Three Russians In South Africa" And All Of "The Fatal Inheritance" And "The Two Brothers" By Other Authors. Binding Worn, Spine Mostly Perished (Spine Label And Some Leather Laid In Loosely), But All Pages Clean, No Damage, And Illustrations Are Very Strong, Clean Impressions Rivaling Those In The Hardcover Edition.