A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners.
Verne, Jules
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. F iv + 286 pages + 40 page publisher's catalogue at back, dated London, August, 1874; tissue-guarded black & white frontispiece + other occasionally humorous, well-done black and white illustrations distributed througout the text (collated complete); Note: title page illustration depicts sailor holding life-saver stating "Great Eastern"; small diamond-shaped binder's ticket of Burn & Co. on final endpaper; orangish-brick red publisher's cloth binding, black and gilt cover & spine illustrations, in imitation of the frontisipiece; all edges gilt; meets all requirements for first edition in English as per E. & J. Myers 1989 Bibliography of Verne, P. 31 # 22; some edge, tips wear to binding; occasional foxing in text; good condition. Good H (Item ID: 13575)
$750.00
