Jules Verne Dick Sands
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Verne, Jules: Dick Sand, New York, NY A.L. Burt Company ; fester Einband / hard cover
Good
vii, 413 pp, mustard cloth covered boards w/brown-black-red illustrations on the front panel and the spine w/black lettering. A whale hunt in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and the Americas ends in tragedy with Dick Sands, becoming Captain, at fifteen years of age. Dick tries to get the ship east to the South American coast. However, the cook on board the ship has plans of his own and manages to get the ship diverted to Angola on the continent of Africa. worn at top and bottom of the spine, prev owner's name on FPD, 2-1/4 circle on the front cover where the finish has been removed. Reprint No Jacket Hard Cover Sm8vo 7-1/2" to 8" Tall; Reprint
[SW: Brig Schooner Shipwreck Slave Trade Negroes Whale-Fishing Children Children's]
Verne, Jules: Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1879
Very Good- Meyer, Henri
Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. ix, [1], 486, [26] p.: wood-engraved frontispiece, 92 wood-engraved leaves of illustrations, 1 map; 21 cm. (8.25 inches). Brown fine diagonal-ribbed cloth with gilt- and black-stamped titles and illustrations on the spine and the front cover. Blind stamped border on back cover. Cover title: Dick Sands, or The Boy Captain. Pale yellow endpapers. Title vignette. Map of the "West Coast of Central Africa" inserted between pp. [236] and 237. The many illustrations are drawn by Henry Meyer and engraved by Charles Brabant. The frontispiece and leaves of illustration (escept those facing pages 58, 61, 63, 66, 72, and 73) are included in pagination. Final 26 unpaginated pages contain publisher's advertisements. This was the second American edition. It was probably published in December 1878, although the title page states "1879" and it followed that published earlier in 1878 by George Munro, under the title "Dick Sand; or, A Captain at Fifteen." Myers, 15. In "Dick Sands" Verne portrays Africa of the mid to late 19th century, in particular focusing on the slave trade and its brutalizing influence on everyone touched by it. In Very Good- Condition: edges and back cover are rubbed; ends of spine and corners are frayed, with small loss of cloth at tail of spine; occasional light marginal soiling; pages are otherwise clean; cover gilt is bright.
Jules Verne: Dick Sands: A Captain at Fifteen, ISBN: 1410100294
In 1878 appeared Dick Sands, the epic of the slave trade. This picture of the wilds of Africa, its adventures and its dangers, the savage hunting both of beasts and men, has always been a favorite... Format: Paperback Condition: New
Verne, Jules: Dick Sands - The Boy Captain, London Sampson Low,Marston,Searle & Rivington 1882 ; fester Einband / hard cover
Very Good AEG Riou
Author's Illustrated edition with illustrations by Riou. Second English Edition. Gilt titles with black decoration and black pictorial on brown cloth boards which are unmarked to spine and front, a few very small minor marks to back and a touch of light bumping to corner tips but no wear. Gilt and pictorial particularly bright. All edges gilt. Internally very clean and unmarked with slight separation of front and rear board pastedowns from main section. Presented in two parts each with 9 illustrations and a list of books by Jules Verne. 383 pages. A VERY GOOD, CLEAN and PARTICULARLY BRIGHT copy. No Jacket Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
[SW: FRENCH AUTHORS]