Jules Verne. A Biography by Verne, Jean Jules - 1976

New York: Taplinger Publishing Co. Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. Ex-Lib, Cover in Mylar. .

London England: Macdonald and Janes, 1976. Non Fiction First Edition. Jules Verne. Slight shelf wear to edges and corners of D/J. Some marks to D/J. The author of this biography of Jules Verne is one of the few people still alive who can claim to have actually known him - and not only known him, but lived with him. For Jean Jules-Verne is the only surviving grandson of the great writer, and this book is written with the extra insight of their close family relationship. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is perhaps the greatest of the founding fathers of science fiction - a master of narrative and a purveyor of dreams and adventures for the whole of mankind who, as a young man, said that he wanted to write 'the romance of science'. Illustrated. 245 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very… Read More