From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Sampson Low, 1896. Tenth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 10th Edition 1896. 26 plate illustrations. The book is very good and is in bright condition. Lovely pictorial boards. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17456
Synopsis
From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lasting Words Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025956
- Title
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Author
- Jules Verne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Tenth Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Lasting Words Ltd
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...