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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Verne, Jules
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- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Author's Edition. Cloth. Very good. Scarce author's edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, published in 1875.. Octavo, x, 303pp. Original decorative red cloth-covered boards. Original red cloth spine laid over contemporary spine, reinforcing text block. Stated "Author's Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, original cloth heavily rubbed, faint foxing throughout text, a very good example. Contains twenty-six full-page black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea was originally published in French, serialized in the Pierre-Jules Hetzel magazine from March 1869 through June 1870. It was translated to English and published in the United States in 1873.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15459
- Title
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Illustrator
- Scarce author's edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, published in 1875.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Author's Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Jules Verne, Verne, Jules Verne first edition, Jules Verne signed, The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico, Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues, Journey to the Center of the Earth
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