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VERNE, Jules (1828–1905). A group of 10 works, including:
Five Weeks in a Balloon. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. Numerous plates. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt (spine slightly skewed, joints tender). SECOND AMERICAN EDITION of Verne’s first book, first published in Paris in 1863. Myers 20. –– A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., n.d. [1874]. Numerous plates. Original terra cotta cloth gilt (spine sunned, few spots of rubbing to extremes). Myers calls this a “possibly pirated copy” that must have been printed shortly after the first American edition. Myers 35. –– Around the World in Eighty Days. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [ca. 1878?]. Numerous illustrations. Original blind–stamped pictorial green cloth, spine stamped in gilt (light wear at extreme ends, hinges cracked). Early edition not listed in Myers.
And many others, all 8vo, all in original cloth, condition generally good.