Works of Jules Verne; Volume 12 by Verne, Jules; Horne, Charles F. 1870-1942

Vincent Parke and Company, 1911. Hardcover. Good. The complete works of Jules Verne in fifteen volumes. Red half leather with gilt ruling, spine titling, and elaborate spine decoration. Volumes have light edgewear, with some dampstaining to covers and textblock edges, with narrow effect on interior margin - there is usually no effect on texts. This dampstaining to the boards is heavier on volumes two and 11-15, and is significant on volumes eleven and fifteen, with the cloth lifting at front panel of volume eleven and the front board of volume fifteen gently warped. Minor chipping to spine head of volume nine. Spines square. Bindings sound. Gilt top edges, and marbled paper endsheets. Interior dampstaining on volumes eleven through fifteen stretches inward from the bottom and fore-edge margins, throughout fly leaves, front matter, and including the frontispieces and title pages of volumes 13-15. The interiors are otherwise clean, with lightly toned pages, no prior owner's names, notes, or… Read More

New York and London: Vincent Parke and Company, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Prince Edward of Wales Edition signed by Registrar signed (but not numbered) by registrar R. G. Lancaster and limited to 500 copies. Complete 15 Volume Set. Tall octavo-sized volumes bound in red cloth. From private collection. Volumes show some scuffs and rubbing to spine ends and edges of boards. Several volumes show small splits to fabric along crown of spine. Top edge of upper board of volume 2 is bumped near spine. Gilt top edges of book blocks have become a little tarnished with time. A few leaves show minor tears to margins where leaves were opened roughly.