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Hardcover. First English-Language Edition. Octavo, 192 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine orange with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: '$3.00'. Mild shelfwear. Creasing along edges and back cover. Rubbing to spine and rear board. Tanning to front and rear endpapers. Age-toning to textblock. Shelved under Front Counter. Accredited to Jules Verne, but written by his son, Michel Verne. 'Into the Niger Bend' is the first volume in the Barsac Mission series. 1368970. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

First Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS, being part of the popular Arco uniform 'Fitzroy' series reissued in the 1960s, often featuring amended titles (as with the present volume). Crown octavo, pp.192. Publisher's cloth in a harrowing pictorial dust-jacket. Toning to page edges, some dustiness, spinea touch sunned.…

[Science Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink and black dust-jacket, originally priced at 15s, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Gently toned throughout. Price-clipped jacket a little rubbed to edges and sunned to spine. Near fine. The mad and enterprising members of the Baltimore Gun Club purchase the Arctic, and seek to change the Earth's climate zones by shifting its orbit. The privately-owned North Pole thus becomes a tropical paradise, allowing the Club to clean up on the cruise ship and piña colada holidays market. First translated into English in 1890.…

[French Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and pink dust-jacket designed by Jozef Gross, priced at 12/6, and re-priced with a sticker to 15s. Just a hint of toning to jacket spine, with some very light general rubbing. Fine. The second half of a surprisingly conventional tale from Verne, pitting an Abolitionist Northerner against a slave-owning Southerner. First published in French in 1887, and translated into English the same year.…

[Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and blue dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Gently toned throughout. Original price to back cover crossed out with a black marker. Jacket price-clipped and slightly toned to spine. A crisp, clean copy. Near fine. The second half of one of Verne's forays into deep space, stuffed to the portholes with men in handlebar moustaches lurching about jungles on horseback and launching into orbit in a balloon. First published in French in 1877 and translated into English the same year.…

[Historical Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.171 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and orange dust-jacket designed by William Langstaffe, priced at 12/6. Lightly toned to jacket spine. Near fine. The second part of the grand heroic tragedy of French rebellion in Quebec in 1837. First published in 1889 and translated into English the same year.…

[Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and white dust-jacket priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Original price to back cover crossed out with a black marker. Light rubbing to jacket. A fine copy. A collection of short stories first published in French in 1874, and translated into English the same year.…

[Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and black dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a lovely fine copy. A message found in a bottle, inside a shark, tell Lord Glenarvan that Captain Grant has been wrecked, and where to find him, but little else. First published in French in 1867, and originally translated into English in 1873.…

[Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and blue dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6. Price-clipped jacket lightly toned to spine with a few marks. Near fine. A young man, rescued from a shipwreck as a baby, sets out on his own voyage to discover his origins. First published in French in 1885, and originally translated into English that year as 'The Wreck of the Cynthia.'.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. A smart first UK edition of this little-known historical story from French novelist Jules Verne. First UK edition. Set in the eighteenth century, the secret of Wilhelm Storitz has been inherited from his father, a chemist in the days when chemistry was still largely a matter of alchemy. Possessing the power to terrorize a whole town , the secret is left for the reader to discover. Written by Jules Gabriel Verne, a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including: Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Translated by Idrisyn Oliver Evans, an Orange Free State-born editor and writer. Dust wrapper designed by W. Langstaffe. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with minor shelf wear and light sunning to the spine. The odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. W. Langstaffe (illustrator). book.…

[Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST THUS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 170 [4]; pp.176. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece illustration from the original editions, and a publisher's catalogue request card loose to preliminaries. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jackets originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker to volume I. A pair of lovely fine copies. A feast of steam-powered elephants and revenge, set in India ten years after the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857. First published in French in 1880, and translated into English between 1880 and 1881.…