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The Mysterious Island: Part First, Shipwrecked in the Air

by Verne, Jules

Price: $450.00
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Boston, Mass.: Henry L. Shepard and Company, 1875 202, [2] p.: frontispiece portrait of Verne, 39 leaves of illustrations; 19 cm. (7.5 inches). Original dark red (terra cotta) cloth with gilt- and black-stamped spine and cover titles and illustrations. Yellow endpapers. Final two pages contain illustrated advertisements for two other works by Verne. Inscription on title page dated 1875; Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1885. Additional inscriptions on front fixed endpaper dated 1892; undated former owner's name ("Henry Long") on back of frontispiece, verso of illustration facing p. 24, and back fixed endpaper. Poem on verso of illustration facing p. 32 signed "Annie Long" and dated 1892; undated inscription on verso of illustration facing p. 120 signed "Annie Long." First American Edition. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. In Good- Condition: cover is soiled; corners rubbed; ends of spine, corners, and front joint frayed; some loss of cloth at ends of spine and front joint; back free endpaper lacking; pp. 67-78 separating; soiling to page margins and occasionally to text. The very scarce Shepard edition.. Good-.

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