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The Mysterious Island
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Attractive reprint of the adventure classic, involving a prisoner-of-war balloon escape during the American Civil War, discovery of the titular island, and encounters with Captain Nemo. Jacket art by N. C. Wyeth, 'borrowed' from the Scribner's Classic edition. Undated, after 1929 but before 1956 (two other more easily dated G&D printings); '5050' jacket price corresponds to other G&D teen books around 1940. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, minor cockling to pages from no obvious source; jacket lightly rubbed with minor chipping, crease to front flap; ink name inside front cover. Text clean; [4], 500 pages, glossy b/w frontispiece.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
Synopsis
The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0846
- Title
- The Mysterious Island
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Deserted Island
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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