The Works of Jules Verne. [Including: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days].
“REALITY PROVIDES US WITH FACTS SO ROMANTIC THAT IMAGINATION ITSELF COULD ADD NOTHING TO THEM”: FINELY BOUND SET OF THE WORKS OF JULES VERNE
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The Works of Jules Verne. [Including: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days].
VERNE, Jules.
Item Number: 109825
London: George Routledge & Sons; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, [1882-1886].
The works of Jules Verne containing mixed editions published by both George Routledge & Sons and Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Octavo, 17 volumes, bound in three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. The following titles are present: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Round The World in Eighty Days, Journey To The Center of the Earth, A Voyage Around the World, A Floating City, The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians In Southern Africa, From the Earth to the Moon Direct and Round the Moon, The Fur Country, The English at the north Pole, The Field of Ice, The Mysterious Island (first illustrated edition, 1886), Dick Sands, Five Weeks in a Balloon (first illustrated edition), Michael Strogoff, Dr. Ox’s Experiment (Author’s Illustrated Edition, 1884), A Winter Amid the Ice, The Steam House, parts I and II, The Begum’s Fortune, The Tribulations of a Chinaman (Author’s Illustrated Edition), The Green Ray, Godfrey Morgan, Hector Servadas, The Giant Raft, Keraban The Inflexible, The Child of the Cavern (Author’s Illustrated Edition), The Archipelago on Fire, Martin Paz (First Illustrated Edition 1886), The Survivors of the Chancellor (Author’s Illustrated Edition, 1887). In near fine condition.
Jules Verne is considered by many to be the father of science fiction, with a prodigious oeuvre of novels and short fiction. This edition of his works includes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Also includes the first edition in English of Verne's later novel, The Master of the World, preceding the first separate English and American editions of 1914. Edited and with introductions by American scholar Charles F. Horne. Many of the works appear under title variants as found in Taves & Michaluk (95-102).
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