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VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; or, The Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land a Canadian Harpooner. New York: John W. Lovell, Publisher [c.1881].
A rare and exceptional example of an early dust jacket. One of several late nineteenth-century American editions of Verne's immensely popular work, but the only one we have seen in a publisher's dust jacket, beautifully preserved under a contemporary plain paper wrapper. ABPC and RBH record no copies at auction. A fine, bright copy.
Octavo (185 x 120mm). Rust publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and black; publisher's matching patterned dust-jacket (minor wear at extremities), together with plain outer wrapper. Provenance: Charles Wilks (ownership inscription, dated 30 November 1881).
A rare and exceptional example of an early dust jacket. One of several late nineteenth-century American editions of Verne's immensely popular work, but the only one we have seen in a publisher's dust jacket, beautifully preserved under a contemporary plain paper wrapper. ABPC and RBH record no copies at auction. A fine, bright copy.
Octavo (185 x 120mm). Rust publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and black; publisher's matching patterned dust-jacket (minor wear at extremities), together with plain outer wrapper. Provenance: Charles Wilks (ownership inscription, dated 30 November 1881).