Works of Jules Verne
by Verne, Jules
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- Hardcover
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Exceedingly Scarce Classic Science Fiction Rarity
Works of Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Edited by Charles F. Horne.
New York: Vincent Parke and Company, 1911.
Edition de l Academie. Limited to 300 numbered sets, this being number 38. Fifteen quarto volumes. Hand-colored frontispieces and numerous sepia-tinted engravings throughout. Hand-colored limitation leaves. Gray marbled boards, gilt triple-rule borders with decorative corner devices on front covers. Spines tooled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
From the limitation page:
This is to certify that the Edition de I' Académie of the Works of Jules Verne is limited to three hundred numbered copies at fifteen volumes each; and that this set is registered as No. 38
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SARAH I. BARDER (probably from the Akron, Ohio area)
Set is in Excellent Condition
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3003
- Title
- Works of Jules Verne
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition #38 of 300
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Vincent Parke and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Marbled boards
- ...