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Hector Servadac;: Or the Career of a Comet. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer.
by VERNE, Jules
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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. Wood-engraved frontispiece, 96 wood-engraved plates, by Laplante after Paul Philippoteaux. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172688
- Title
- Hector Servadac;
- Author
- VERNE, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,
- Date Published
- 1878 [i.e. 1877]
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Rubbing
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- Cracked
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- Cloth
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- Device
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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