L Benett Illus (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. illustrated re-issue edition, shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), olive green pictorial cloth, gilt. 377 pp., engraved plates. Early ownership inscription in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, edges worn, foot of spine fraying, title-page a bit soiled, text toned, one slightly sprung gathering, slight damp-stains at fore-edge. First edition, first state of the large octavo American edition. REFERENCES: Taves & Michaluk V038; Myers 41. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. iv, 377 p., interspersed with plates. 22 cm. Frontispiece and 81 other full page plates, as well as a smaller vignette on p. iv. Blue cloth with black and gold impresing. Front features Mrs. Branican en route to the ship Dolly's Hope while spine shows the bell of the shipwrecked Franklin. Mylar wrap (removed for photo). Corners and spine ends worn. Light shelf wear on lower edges. Some light soiling. A couple of signatures jutting out slightly. Inscriptions on front free endpaper. Paper browning. Small mark rear of frontispiece. Pages neat and clean. Fairly scarce Verne adventure novel with a female protagonist. When her husband John goes to sea and she loses her only child, Wat, San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers, she discovers her husband's ship was lost at sea and she is heir to a substantial fortune. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Dolly uses her extensive resources to discover the whereabouts of her husband's ship, the Franklin. Her search leads her to Australia where her adventures continue into the interior at Alice Springs. Myers 41. Taves and Michaluk V038. First American Edition and first in English.…