Illustrated edition of Verne's Dick Sands, 1879
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Author: Verne, Jules
Title: Dick Sands. The Boy Captain
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Scribner's
Date Published: 1879
Description:
Author: Verne, Jules
Title: Dick Sands. The Boy Captain
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Scribner's
Date Published: 1879
Description:
ix, [1], 486 + [26] ad pp. Illustrated with 93 wood-engraved plates, including the frontispiece, by Henri Meyer, counted in the pagination. 20.3x12.7 cm (8x5¼"), original brick cloth pictorially stamped in gilt & black. First fully-illustrated American Edition.
Verne's classic adventure novel of land and sea, including incidents of the whale fishery industry in the Southern Ocean and the African Slave Trade. With many more illustrations than the 323-page 1878 edition published in New York by George Munro, and in a striking gilt-pictorial binding as opposed to the plain cloth of the earlier edition. There was an English edition first published in 1879, with the same collation as this one. Myers 15.
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Rubbing to binding extremities; very good or better.
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Illustrated edition of Verne's Dick Sands, 1879
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