Tigers and Traitors
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Arco Publications with Bernard Hanison, 1959. Bound in the publishers black hardboards with gilt title lettering to spine. This is the first Fitzroy edition and part 2 of The Steam House. The 176 pages are in fresh, clean condition with no inscriptions and are tightly bound. Book sits solid and square. A very good+ copy. Housed in the colourful dustwrapper displaying three elephants engaged in what appears to be a fight to the death. The Fitzroy first editions of Jules Verne's work certainly display a dramatic and unique dustwrapper art. Light wear and signs of handling with hairline tear to the front panel otherwise a very good dustwrapper which has been priceclipped. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. Becoming scarce in this edition which is the first thus. Photographs of the book and the dustwrapper are available on request. A nice copy in the atmospheric dustwrapper.. First Edition. Very Good +/Very Good.
Synopsis
The Steam House is a Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Jules Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader travel in ninetheenth century India. The descriptions are interspersed with historical information and social commentary.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000670
- Title
- Tigers and Traitors
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arco Publications with Bernard Hanison
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
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- Dustwrapper
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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