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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.

Condition: Fair. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. 1st American edition and 1st English language edition. 8vo. iv,377pp. Illus. by L. Benett. Fair book. Front free endpage removed, else Good. Owner's name on flyleaf. (Australia, widows, novels) Inquire if you need further information.