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The Blockade Runners.
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. Cloth. Very Good+. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound-in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials "B. G." to front board, new endpapers. Cloth binding clean and sharp; ownership blind-stamp and ink date to front endpaper. Original wrappers lightly edgeworn and rubbed; occasional light foxing or minor soiling. Part of Low's Authorised and Illustrated Editions of Jules Verne's Works, priced at one shilling on the front cover. Set during the American Civil War, the novella features James Playfair, a British merchant who runs the blockade at Charleston to trade military supplies for cotton, and again to rescue a Union prisoner. It was first published in French as Les forceurs de blocus in 1865, and translated into English in 1874. Uncommon in the original wrappers.
Synopsis
The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer called the Comet ran between Glasgow and Greenock, at the speed of six miles an hour. Since that time more than a million of steamers or packet-boats have plied this Scotch river, and the inhabitants of Glasgow must be as familiar as any people with the wonders of steam navigation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kate Mitas, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1600
- Title
- The Blockade Runners.
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Kate Mitas, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2017
Oakland, California
About Kate Mitas, Bookseller
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