Five Weeks In A Balloon in Every Saturday: A Journal Of Choice Reading, Bound Volume

Language: English

Published by Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1868

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Entire Volume VI, binding copy, marbled front board detached but present, rear board missing, spine leather missing, first and final few pages brittle and chipped, NOT affecting the Verne piece, a great candidate for the binder. This is the first appearance in English of parts of the author's first novel, a few pages excerpted from the book of the same title that would be published by D. Appleton, NY, 1869, after having been published multiple times in France beginning in 1863. Verne, who was relatively unknown in the English - speaking literary world, was misidentified by the editors of the present piece as "M. Jules Berne." It is generally believed the editors thought this piece was non-fiction. From the editor's preface, "I must begin by stating that I cannot guarantee the authenticity of the following remarkable adventures. I merely repeat them here, confiding in the good faith of one M. Jules Berne. The Frenchmen, who, it is notorious, are much better up in aeronautics than ourselves, modestly leave the merit of the five weeks' balloon trip across Africa to the English." Very scarce, and ready for restoration.…

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Title
Five Weeks In A Balloon in Every Saturday: A Journal Of Choice Reading, Bound Volume
Author
Verne, Jules
Publisher
Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston
Publication year
1868
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
First American Edition
Dimensions
4to

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