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Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
by VERNE, Jules
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
1879 Jules Verne 1ed Tribulations of Chinaman CHINA Opium Extraordinary Voyages
"In a very real sense, Jules Verne is one of the pioneers of the space age."
― Frank Borman, Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 1969.
A rare first edition of Jules Verne's "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China". The first edition was published in 1879 and is part of Verne's famous "Extraordinary Voyages". This book is similar in style to 'Around the World in Eighty Days' but is known to be more humorous than his best-known novel. This book discusses, in a satirical view, the British trading opium in China and is filled with illustrations depicting adventures, shipwrecks, and sea battles.
This first illustrated French edition was the first issue to include the 'JV – JH' initials on the front cover. Note that the 1879 first edition dating is found in the ads at the end, much like all early editions of Verne.
Item number: #21539
Price: $750
VERNE, Jules
Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
Paris : J. Hetzel, [1879]. First edition
Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o [4], 203, [9]
o Illustrated throughout
• Language: French
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative red cloth
• Size: ~10.75in X 7.25in (27cm x 18.5cm)
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Synopsis
OU LA PERSONNALITE ET LA NATIONALITE DES PERSONNAGES SE DEGAGENT PEU A PEU « Il faut pourtant convenir que la vie a du bon ! s'ecria l'un des convives, accoude sur le bras de son siege a dossier de marbre, en grignotant une racine de nenuphar au sucre. Et du mauvais aussi ! repondit, entre deux quintes de toux, un autre, que le piquant d'un delicat aileron de requin avait failli etrangler ! Soyons philosophes ! dit alors un personnage plus age, dont le nez supportait une enorme paire de lunettes a larges verres, montees sur tiges de bois. Aujourd'hui, on risque de s'etrangler, et demain tout passe comme passent les suaves gorgees de ce nectar ! C'est la vie, apres tout ! » Et cela dit, cet epicurien, d'humeur accommodante, avala un verre d'un excellent vin tiede, dont la legere vapeur s'echappait lentement d'une theiere de metal. « Quant a moi, reprit un quatrieme convive, l'existence me parait tres acceptable, du moment qu'on ne fait rien et qu'on a le moyen de ne rien faire !
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- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21539
- Title
- Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
- Author
- VERNE, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. Hetzel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1879
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1879 Jules Verne 1ed Tribulations of Chinaman CHINA Opium Extraordinary Voyages , rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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