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VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: George M. Smith & Co., 1873.
8vo. Numerous wood-engraved plates including frontispiece. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt (recased, ends reinforced with repairs).
Second American edition and virtually the only obtainable edition as most copies of the first American edition published by James R. Osgood are believed to have been destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 9 November 1872. FIRST ISSUE with the words “The End” in broken type on p. 303. “It is surmised that this type was not used in the printing of most copies and that copies with this notation are among the earliest produced of this edition” (Myers 56). It was adapted into many feature films, most notably Walt Disney’s 1954 live-action Technicolor, starring James Mason as Captain Nemo.