From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes: And a Trip Round It.
JULES VERNE
Published by London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888
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EIGHTH EDITION, cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (20.5cm x 13.5cm x 3.5cm), pp. viii, 323. English text, translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King, with numerous illustrations throughout. Bound in publisher's original green pictorial cloth gilt, yellow endpapers, 80 illustrations. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding secure. Rubbing to spine ends and points. Interior largely clean. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper. Scarce. Seller Inventory # MFR0520
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Title: From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 ...
Publisher: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Publication Date: 1888
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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From the Earth to the Moon (direct in 97 hours and 20 minutes: and a trip round it)
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Scribner's, New York, 1920
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Hardcover
Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good but later variant, rocket in transit to moon on front cover, 323pps, 3 colour illustrations. Seller Inventory # 120074
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From the Earth to the Moon, direct in 97 hours 20 minutes: and a trip round it. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier, and Eleanor E. King. With numerous illustrations. 4th edn.
Published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, GB, 1875
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Hardcover
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: nrVG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 5th Edition. Green cloth decorated in darker green and lettered in gold. April 1879 catalogue. Clean tight copy (no inscriptions etc) , slightly cocked and with minor shelf wear. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Seller Inventory # v076A.627
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From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes: And a Trip Round It
Published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1875
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Hardcover
Seller: Paragon Books BA FSB, Sidmouth, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Green decorated cloth boards with gilt titling, tissue protected frontispiece. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor King, 'with numerous illustrations'. Somewhat edgewarn, spinehead pulled, corners rubbed and page edges browned. School presentation plate, dated 1879, on front pastedown, and gift inscription, dated 1955, in blue fountain pen, on front free endpaper. Seller Inventory # ABE-1675703212836
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From the Earth to the Moon - direct - in 97 hours 20 minutes - and a trip round it.
Published by
Sampson, Low, Marston,, London:, 1907
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Hardcover
Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Twelfth edition. vi, [iv], 323pp, with 26 black and white illustrations. [The prelims have two listings of the illustrations, one of which is for a copy with only 15 of the plates.] Pages clean and fresh: some foxing to the closed fore-edge, encroaching onto the edges of some pages. In the original pictorial binding of olive cloth, very bright and clean: almost like new, and with slight puckering of the spine ends. Seller Inventory # 19071020
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From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes: And a Trip Round it
Published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1875
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). The fifth edition in English of one of Jules Verne's important and pioneering science fiction novels, a smart illustrated edition. The fifth edition in English.'From the Earth to the Moon', published with the sequel 'Around the Moon'.A thrilling adventure novel by Jules Verne, telling the story of a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts as they attempt to build a space gun to send people to the Moon.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventy-nine plates.Collated, complete.This edition was translated from French to English by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Spine is a little discoloured. Mark to the rear joint and rear board. Spots to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good Indeed. book. Seller Inventory # 894P13
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From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 hours 20 minutes: and a trip round it.
Published by
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1875
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Hardcover
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. The rare fourth edition only two years after the first edition, with the same arresting artwork on the front board in gilt of a rocket being shot out of a mountain toward the moon, the eruption, rocket, moon and stars all in gilt on a black and crimson background. Ornate illustrated spine in gilt black and maroon. Some edgewear to spine. Illustrations complete including frontispiece with tissue paper of the projectile approaching the moon. All edges in heavy gilt. A sumptuous and rare early edition. Seller Inventory # 80259
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From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes: And A Trip Round It
Published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London, 1873
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Cloth. Condition: Fair. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first UK edition of Jules Verne's classic works of nineteenth century science fiction, 'From the Earth to the Moon' and 'Around the Moon'. The first UK edition of two classic science fiction novels by Jules Verne: 'De la Terre a la Lune' (1865) and its sequel, 'Autour de la Lune' (1870).These works were first combined in their original French in 1872, with this work being the first English language edition.Translated from the original French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventy-seven plates. Collated, lacking one plate.Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne's classic science fiction work is a somewhat prophetic account of man's first voyage to the moon.Verne's novel tells the story of a group named the Baltimore Gun Club, who attempt to build an enormous space gun in order to launch three people, in a projectile, to land on the moon.Verne's novel was referred to by Neil Armstrong during the 23rd July 1969 return journey of the Apollo 11, during a television broadcast. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Boards bright. Lacking back strip. Boards weakly held by a single cord each. Front free endpaper and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally, binding tender, with first 33 pages working loose. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting and light handling marks, most concentrated to pages surrounding plates. Lacking one plate. Two plates detached and loosely inserted. Fair. book. Seller Inventory # 899F47
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