The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo, First Edition (25 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Corners bumped and moderately worn, head and heel of spine moderately worn including inch-long tear in cloth binding at head of spine, mild dampstain at bottom of front board. VERY GOOD . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (iii), 397 pp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

1st ed. thus full leather Very Good small octavo 473pp., Lovely crisp copy in bright burgundy leather, gilt top edges & with bright gilt titles at spine.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. Grn slipcase with blk cloth spine and; No marks or writing, clean tight binding;; Signed by wood engraver and printer ' ltd edition # 785/1500, includes member pamphlet; ; 578 pages Very Good decorative paper over boards.

First Edition. Good copy in original cloth with a paper label to the spines. Includes newspaper clippings within. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 270 pages. Subjects; Victor Hugo (1802-1885). The Toilers of the Sea. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Comicbook. Wrappers. HRN 55. Original; August M. Froelich, Illustrater. Cover Illustration of a man under the sea with a knife in his mouth and entangled in the legs of an octupus. U.S. cover price 10 cents. In protective plastic bag with rear cardboard support; tiny 3/16" tear at top of rear cover and previous owner's name written on the "Name" line of rear cover. VERY GOOD+ (4.5).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition: (see pics.) Published by Collins Clear Type Press in blue leatherette slipcase. Book has been well-preserved due to the slipcase, but quite fragile due to age which is estimated around 1900's. (see pics.) Synopsis: Toilers of the Sea (French: Les Travailleurs de la mer) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations (which include a battle with an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.

First Edition. Good copy in original cloth with a paper label to the spines. Includes newspaper clippings within. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 270 pages. Subjects; Victor Hugo (1802-1885). The Toilers of the Sea. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very scarce title in any condition, this volume is in Fine condition. The front and back covers are both in terrific condition and the gilded page edges show hardly any wear (see pictures of all edges). There is light residue on the second page. This book is part of the Library of Famous Editions Collection published by Easton Press. It comes complete with Collector's Notes and would be a beautiful addition to your Easton Press collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. George Barrie and Son, Philadelphia, 1892. First edition thus. Original cloth boards with original paper title labels, b&w frontis plates and b&w plates (engraved etchings). Printed on fine paper. Internally clean and excellent condition. A very good copy. Some fading to spine. Rubbing to boards. This book comprises volumes one and two of The Toilers of the Sea, translated by Mary W. Artois.

Half title, 32pp cata. (Dec. 1881). 'Yellowback', orig. printed boards; some sl. rubbing but a good-plus copy. Les Travailleurs de la Mer, 1866. First English edition, 1866 (this translation). See Topp vol. IV, p.300.

Hardcover. First Edition. Both volumes Very Good+ in boards. International Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies, of which these two volumes are number 401. Spines to both books are sunned and labels show wear. Soiling to front and rear panels. Bookplate to front pastedown.

Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. Gustave Dore (illustrator). First American Edition. FIRST AMER. EDITION, first printing. Full brown cloth with beveled edges and gilt lettering on the spine, cloth is split at the spine at the bottom of the back board with much chipped head of spine. Fraying of the cloth. Illustrated front and two engravings from original pictures by Gustave Dore: The fight with the Devil-Fish (1866) and the Last Breakwater, both with tissueguard in place. UncleAndy Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Selznick film starring Lucy Fox and Holmes Hebert. Front dustjacket panel is a colorized scene from the film. Shipwreck and adventure novel that includes a fight with an octopus. Uncommon photoplay edition. Very Good, contemporary address at front endpaper, preface page darkened from newspaper shadow, paperclip shadow to several preliminary pages, in Very Good dustjacket with both vertical and horizontal crease to panels, shallow chips at spine ends and few edges, small chip at mid-front spine edge.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Easton Press Collector's Library of Famous Editions. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine. Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. A Limited Edition. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine. Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. A Limited Edition. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

First edition. 4to. (29 x 21 cm) 2 volumes. Vol. 1: 171 pp. 46 b/w plates, 6 color. / Vol. 2: 180 pp. 50 b/w plates, 5 color. Translated by Mary W. Artois. Crushed morocco gilt ruled bindings, gilt lettered, decorated spines, raised bands, gilt stamped leather pastedowns with cameo portraits in color and floral designs, suede endpapers, all edges gilt, overall very good condition in slipcases. (90735). Special Edition. No. 16 of 26 copies. All plates with tissue-guards.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good in boards.

1/4 leather in case. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Victor Hugo (illustrator). First Edition; Limited edtion. Color Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 528 pages; 2014 The Folio Society. Limited edition, quarter bound in morocco and laid in publisher's solander case. Hand numbered 680 of 1250 copies printed. Quarter bound in Indian goatskin with printed cloth sides from original illustration by Hugo. 36 vibrant color illustrations done by Hugo and placed per his original intentions. Unread copy is quite Fine in crisp edges brown xloth solander case with tipped on color plate and titles to spine side. Perhaps a whisper of dust outline to the front side of the case. Fine in about Fine case. . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Victor Hugo's third major prose novel. Royal octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with black and white wood-engravings. Boldly signed by illustrator Tranquillo Marangoni and printer Giovanni Mardersteig of Verona at the Officina Bodoni on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 511. In fine condition with light sunning to the spine. Translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood. Introduction by Matthew Josephson. Illustrated by engraver Tranquillo Marangoni. Victor Hugo (1802â"1885) remains one of France's most celebrated writers, renowned for his contributions to literature during the Romantic era. His works, which included novels, plays, and poetry, often explored themes of justice, social inequality, and human resilience. The Toilers of the Sea (1866) is a romantic and symbolic novel that exemplifies the authorâs enduring preoccupations with individual heroism, the sublime power of nature, and the moral dimensions of human suffering. Written during his political exile on the island of Guernsey, the novel reflects both Hugoâs deep admiration for the sea and his sense of alienation from society. Hugo uses the dramatic seascapes and perilous salvaging expedition not only to showcase manâs confrontation with the elements, but also to explore inner resilience, unrequited love, and existential isolation.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. Victor Hugo's well-received adventure Toilers of the Sea, uncommon in this three-volume set. Volume I (first edition), Volume II (second edition) and Volume III (first edition) of Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea, in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bookplate to the front paste down of each volume. Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. It is the story of a man who attempts to win the approval of his beloved's father by rescuing his ship, intentionally marooned by its captain who hopes to escape with a treasure of money it is transporting. 16 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of Volume III. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally smart, though there is some bumping to the spine, boards and extremities of all three volumes. The hinges to Volume I are starting but reasonably firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean except for the occasional handling mark and a little spotting to the first and last couple of pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Hugo, Victor (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover with Indian goatskin leather spine with printed cloth sides and top edge gilt, and is marked limited no. 927/1520 on the colophon at the front. The book has a small lean starting to the binding, a tiny spot of dried binders glue at the head of the spine, and a hint of wear to the cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy in a like clamshell box, which has some mild rubbing to the panels, and a hint of shelfwear to the corners and the tail edges. Additional images are available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition in English, first printing. 3 volumes. Small 8vo. 331; 327; 286pp, 2pp ads dated March 30, 1866, 16pp. ads dated February1, 1866. No half-titles. Publisher's original green pebbled cloth with blind stamped borders and designs to the boards, with gilt to the spines. Evidence of paper label removal to front upper part of each board, possible lending library labels?, no evidence or markings anywhere else, the books are clean throughout in tight, slightly cocked bindings. Paper over a couple hinges have opened up but the books are tight and the bindings strong. Some rubbing and wear along the cloth at the board edges. Authorized English translation by W. Moy Thomas. [Sadleir, 1241].

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Included Les Miserables (volumes 1 & 2 & 3) Notre Dame De Paris, Toilers of the Sea, The Man Who Laughs, Ninety-Three, The Last Day of a Condemned, hans of Iceland, Claude Gueux: Complete 8 Volume Collection. All 8 Volumes Very Good in red cloth. Scarce.