From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes by Verne Jules (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Author's Copyright edition. Pictorial green hardcover with coloured frontis. Retail sticker from Selfridges Book Dept. London. Gift inscription from Mam. Some rubbing to the spine tips and leading corners. Nice clean bright text save for a little light tanning. Beginning very slightly. Printed in Bournemouth in 1919.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good but later variant, rocket in transit to moon on front cover, 323pps, 3 colour illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Uthor's Illustrated Edition. Undated, c1873. Red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and black and silver gilt lettering to front. Boards are marked and generally grubby. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine is age darkened with bumping to ends. Somewhat cocked. Age discolouration to endpages. 7 illustrations. Rear inner hinge is beginning to crack. The binding is loose; the bundles are separating. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally in good order. 160 pp. Previous owner's mark to ffep. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 253g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 033548:13b) Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall Language: ENG 253 G. Book.

Soft cover (Paperback). Condition: Good. Reprint. 160 pages, 7 b/w plates. Spine chipped, wear on corners, soiling on top edges up to p. 115, binding a little soft but holding. Published the "One Shilling Jules Verne's Works" edition.

12th edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; spine almost detached. Panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Loose plates. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 160, 16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Interplanetary voyages. Juvenile fiction. Telescopes. Voyages and travels. Space flight. Adventure stories. Artillery. 1 Kg.

Octavo, original cloth boards lettered in gilt and with blindstamped decoration, pp 252. N.d., c. 1900. Light marking upper board, corners and head and foot of spine lightly rubbed, pages toned. New endpapers. Very good condition. Classic early science fiction novel by Jules Verne, translated from the French. It tells the story of the "Baltimore Gun Club", a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous space gun and launch three people in a rocket to the moon.

1889 RPT VG RED/BLUE PICT BOARDS Transl. from the French by L. Mercier and Eleann E. King. Author's Edition with Illustrations. 7 B/W PLATES.

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.

Sampson Low, Marston & Company. London. 1907. Twelfth edition. Hardback, no DW. Original illustrated teal cloth gilt, very attractive. 16 b/w plates, all present. Head and tail of spine and lower joint very slightly frayed, corners slightly rubbed, outer edges of pages, some margins of pages and endpapers foxed otherwise a remarkably clean and fresh copy.

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.

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.

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.

Later edition of Verne's classic novel. Octavo, original publisher's orange cloth decorated in gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with twelve black-and-white plates inserted throughout. Boldly signed on the half-title page and facing page in black felt tip by three Apollo astronauts and two members of the support staff: "Frank Borman Apollo 8 CDR"; "Dee O'Hara Astronaut Nurse"; "Walt Cunningham Apollo 7 LMP"; "Charlie Duke Apollo 16 LMP"; "Gerry Griffin Apollo Flight Director Mission Control." Jules Verneâs From the Earth to the Moon exhibits striking parallels to the real-life Apollo program, particularly Apollo 8, the first U.S. manned mission to orbit the Moon. Like Verne's fictional launch, the actual mission was carried out by a three-man crew, launched from Floridaâ"a location chosen after the dismissal of Brownsville, Texas, much like the novelâs own geographic deliberations. Apollo 8 lifted off in December and concluded with a splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean, mirroring Verneâs imaginative depiction of a lunar voyage that anticipated many of the missionâs logistical realities. In very good condition. A unique piece of aeronautical history. Jules Verne is widely held as âone of the two founding fathers of science fictionâ"the other being H.G. Wellsâ (Clute & Nicholls, 1275). Written almost a century before the flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. From the Earth to the Moon is âthe first interplanetary novel to focus on the technical and organizational preparations for the voyage, using the actual blast-off as a climax, introducing thereby a new narrative realism⦠And a Trip Around It continues the story by describing the experiences of the intrepid voyagers as they observe the Moon en passant before a slingshot effect hurls them earthward again. The couplet is one of the definitive foundation stones of the science fiction genreâ (Barron:II:1180).

Large octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-84, printed in double columns, inserted frontispiece, publisher's green wrappers printed in black. First edition in English. Verne's third book, DE LA TERRE Á LA LUNE: TRAJET DIRECT EN 97 HEURES (1865), was first published in book form in English as FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON: PASSAGE DIRECT IN 97 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES . by the Newark Printing and Publishing Co. in the latter half of 1869 as a paperbound book following its publication in seventeen installments over a two-month period commencing June 10th in the NEWARK DAILY AND WEEKLY JOURNAL OF NEW JERSEY. This edition of FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON was the second book by Verne to be published in English, preceded only by the D. Appleton and Company edition of FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON, published in New York 13 March 1869. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-93 and (2004) II-1180. Taves and Michaluk V003. Myers 26 ("This will probably rank for all time as the most rare of all Verne editions!"). 30 mm chip from lower spine end and 15 mm chip from upper spine end, tiny chips from front corner tips, 10x10 mm v-chip from back wrapper at spine fold, several stains and some soiling to wrappers, a very good copy, internally clean and tight. A legendary rarity, the Library of Congress holding one of the several known copies, another was found by us a few years ago and sold to a private buyer. This is the Larry Solomon copy which he purchased from J & S Graphics sometime in the 1970s. (#154553).

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good. A lovely copy of this contemporary bound book. Two volumes bound as one160pp; 189pp. From the earth to the moon has 7 full page illustrative plates as called for and Five weeks in a balloon is illustrated with numerous drawings in the text. This book was published in 1876 as the author's illustrated edition. Translated from the original French. Bound in original contemporary leather with marbled boards. 5 bands to the spine and gilt embossed lettering to the two title blocks on the spine. Cloth page divider still attached at the head of the spine. There is rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the board corners, leaving the leather with slight loss and a little rounded. Light fading to the leather spine. There is loss of the edges of the title blocks with some loss of the gilt lettering. A very slight split to the head of the spine between the rear board and spine strip. Previous owners gilt name and address sticker to the head of the front paste down with a small red sticker with the number 34 within it. A neat sepia ink name inscription to the reverse of the front end paper with a stamp G.E.T. to the tail of the same page and also to the tail of the reverse of the rear end paper. Some foxing to the reverse of the front end paper, preliminary blank page, title page and last few pages of the book. Occassional scattered light foxing elsewhere. Otherwise the book is clean and tight. A very good tight copy.