Gordon benett (2 Ergebnisse)

[Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 254 [4]. With a folding map and 79 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine, and black titles to upper. Bookplate to front pastedown. Lightly toned throughout. Spine toned with heavy wear and fraying to head and tail. Very good. A Peruvian man decides to use the Amazon river to travel to Brazil to marry off his daughter, and to collect proof that he is innocent of a crime committed long ago. First published in two volumes in 1881-82, and first published in a single volume in 1884.…

[Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 382 [2]. With 79 illustrated plates including a frontispiece by Benett. Recently re-cased in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and pink and blue decoration to spine and upper, with new cream endpapers. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Strong tobacco scent. Spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Heavily cocked. Very heavy rubbing to cloth, with most colour lost from the spine. Good. A novel following a string quartet resident on a giant moving island populated by millionaires enjoying a perpetual cruise around the Pacific. First published in 1895, with an English edition appearing in 1896.…