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VERNE, Jules (1828–1905). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: George M. Smith & Co., 1873. 8vo. Illustrated. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt (sunning to spine, rubbing, offsetting, foxing throughout, toning). Later printing of the first American edition. Originally serialized in the March 1869–June 1870 issues of Pierre-Jules Hetzel’s Magasin, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas was later published in a deluxe octavo edition with 110 original illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. The first American edition was originally published by James R. Osgood; many of these printings are believed to have been destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 9 November 1872. Myers 56.