Jules Verne: A Collector's Bibliography of First Editions & Printings in English
by Myers, Edward and Judith
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1593860269
- ISBN 13
- 9781593860264
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2004. Book. New. Cloth. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second edition. Cloth binding, gold titles. Printed on acid-free paper. 91 pp.bibliography plus an additional 8-page booklet in color of representative first edition covers laid in. Corrected and expanded edition. Includes index of titles & addenda; the books; collected works; works about Verne; notes; source editions. Limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered on the copyright page. An expansion and emendation of the work originally published in 1988 in an edition of 500 copies. This was the first organized attempt to describe Verne first editions and first printings in English from a collector's perspective, written by collectors for collectors. To make it, Edward and Judith Myers drew on the experiences of other collectors, of the Library of Congress, and of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. Throughout the bibliography are notes which touch on issues important to collectors, such as what makes a book truly rare, and what makes it beautiful and desirable? What even constitutes a Verne "first edition" and how can it be identified? When is a later edition a more valuable acquisition? The bibliography is an in-depth examination, as it were, of a smaller cross section of the Verne oeuvre. In attractive heavy pictorial dustjacket, brand new..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018961
- Title
- Jules Verne: A Collector's Bibliography of First Editions & Printings in English
- Author
- Myers, Edward and Judith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- Second Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1593860269
- ISBN 13
- 9781593860264
- Publisher
- Clock & Rose Press
- Place of Publication
- Harwich Port
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- JULES VERNE BIBLIOGRAPHY COLLECTORS FIRST EDITION EDITIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature and Fiction;
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