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Hector Servadac: Voyages et Aventures a Travers le Monde Solaire par Jules Verne; dessins de P. Philippoteaux, graves par Laplante
by Verne, Jules
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Collection Hetzel, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good -. [4], 395, [1] p., 6 leaves of plates in 1 color: many in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Publisher's binding: red leather spine with five spine compartments between raised bands; red pebbled cloth over boards. Gilt-tooled title in second and fourth compartments and decoration in remaining compartments. Blind-ruled decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. White moire endpapers. Printed by Gauthier-Villars, listed on the last page with the code 33478. Part of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. No date of publication; consistent with first edition (1877), but without the publisher's catalog for 1877-78, suggesting a later issue of the first edition. Stamp on title page and p. 50: Georgian Court College, Sisters of Mercy, Lakewood, N.J. Back endpapers scraped where pocket was removed. With 6 plates not usually noted. In Very Good- Condition: edges of leather spine are rubbed with minor loss at spine ends; corners of boards are frayed; endpapers are scraped; 3-cm. closed tear from fore-edge of half title/frontispiece; small chip in fore-edge of title page; pages and plates clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004309
- Title
- Hector Servadac: Voyages et Aventures a Travers le Monde Solaire par Jules Verne; dessins de P. Philippoteaux, graves par Laplante
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collection Hetzel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1879
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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