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VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874.
8vo. Numerous wood-engraved plates including frontispiece (some penciling to frontispiece margin). Original brown pebbled pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt (spine and extremities sunned, some spotting to covers, ends and corners a bit worn, central hinge cracked and starting).
SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, but the first obtainable American edition; it is preceded by the 1869 Newark edition, of which only one copy is known. Myers 26.