Hector Servadac, or The Career of a Comet by Verne, Jules - 1908

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good/no. Please Note: This is a 1917 Hardcover Edition. Rubbing to boards edges. Spine is faded. Small book plate to inside front cover. Books plate ghost on front end paper. Binding intact.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Fantasy adventure. 'Uniform Edition'. Octavo, pp.370. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in gilt and black. Nominal edgewear, spine ends chipped, some age-related toning to spine,gift note in ink to pastedown. Very good.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Good. 1882. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover is soiled and frayed at extremities. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name stamped on front end sheet. Pages are toned with light scattered soiling but overall in good condition. Illustrated in b&w. .

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1881. Second Edition. Hardcover. The Second Edition 1881 in English. Stated 'Second Edition' on the Title Page . (First was 1877 published in both French and English). In the Publisher's Very Good Original dark green cloth-bound boards with black titling on a gilt background and black stamped illustration to both spine and front cover. The secondary title - 'The Career of a Comet' is only on the front cover and spine, but not on the title page. Some VERY slight rubbing to the very tips of the corners, and head/tail of the spine but overall the book presents very well. Clean and Tight. Page fore-edges lightly age 'toned', but generally very clean - Printed on good paper. Outer hinges tight. Internally yellow endpapers. Small part of front and all of the rear inner PAPER hinge only, is split. NO Inscriptions. (x) + (4) + 370 pp + Plates (unpaginated). 97 full page b/w engraved… Read More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A good copy. Likely ex-library with pastedown plate having been removed. Brown cloth state/issue, no ads to the rear (second edition is denoted such, suggesting this to be the first). AEG. Some softening to the tips and corners. Hinges split showing webbing but still holding. Ink note to the endpaper. [10393, Hyraxia Books]. . Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1878.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First English edition. Collation, x[2]370pp, bound without catalogue. Bound in original publishers red gilt cloth, full gilt edges. This volume has been recased, with some restoration, bottom corners of boards very slightly bumped, cloth very slightly faded, some mine light staining. Binding in very good clean firm condition, hinge joints very strong. Internally, no loose pages, front fixed endpaper has a section pasted down in a slightly crude amateur way, same signature on free endpaper and top margin on title page, looks contemporay,some occasional light spotting, a few minor pencil annotaions. Pages and illustrations in very good condition. A very nice clean copy.A49. First English Edition. 8vo.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,, 1878 [i.e. 1877]. Perhaps the most remarkable of Verne's mid-period works" (SFE) First English-language edition in book form of the work better known as Off on a Comet. Though the title page is dated 1878, the book was published on November 1877, following serialization in Strahan's Boys' and Girls' Annual from January to September 1877. The French edition was also published the same year. Variant cloth colours have been noted, without priority. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover pictorially stamped in gilt and black, blind rules and publisher's device on rear cover, coated endpapers, edges gilt. Frontispiece, title page vignette, 96 wood-engraved plates. Two contemporary ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper. Spine cocked, ends bumped, light rubbing and corner wear, bright overall, cracked inner hinges with signs of previous repair attempts, book block sound and largely clean. A very good copy.