Jules Verne

Verne, Jules. MERIDIANA: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa. translated from the French. With numerous Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. 2 pp undated ads. Original blindstamped green cloth. First Edition printed in America. This South African tale was intially published in the original French in 1872, as AVENTURES DE TROIS RUSSES ET DE TROIS ANGLAIS DANS L'AFRIQUE AUSTRALE. Sampson Low's English edition, titled MERIDIANA (with the nationalities reversed in favor of the Englishmen in the subtitle, as here), was issued in November 1872 but was dated 1873. In the same month, some of these copies (printed and bound in England) were imported into the U. S. and equipped with title pages of Scribner's import house, Scribner, Welford and Armstrong (likewise dated 1873) -- technically the American issue of the first English edition, and extremely scarce today. This 1874 MERIDIANA was then the first edition actually produced in America -- technically the first American edition (though there was also an unauthorized American edition by Shepard, titled ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF THE BEHEMOTH, with an altered translation and fewer illustrations, published on the very same day). This copy is in the first state, with only two titles (and not this one) listed on the title verso; later copies have three titles listed, and still later copies have six. The cloth is green (some are terra-cotta; no priority). Condition is very good, perhaps near-fine, with the gilt quite bright; there is minor wear at the head of the spine and a small cut out on the first blank page (see picture). This is just about the most common Verne first edition.

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Verne, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF, The Courier of the Czar. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original terra cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Edition of this historical tale of adventure taking place during a Siberian revolt. The first publication in English, in October 1876, was in a wrappered American edition by Frank Leslie; Sampson Low's U. K. edition came out two months later (in December 1876, despite the 1877 date on the title page). This Scribner Armstrong edition came out a few weeks later, in January 1877; it sold so well that by February a third edition was being advertised. This is a bright, near-fine, with very minor wear at the very tips of the spine.

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Verne, Jules. THE FUR COUNTRY. Or Seventy Degrees North Latitude. Translated from the French by N. d'Anvers. With One Hundred Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First American Edition of this tale, filled with adventures, of a voyage and journey to the ice floes of the far northwestern reaches of Canada. Included are one hundred full page plates, many quite dramatic. LE PAYS DES FOURRURES was published in French in 1873, followed by Sampson Low's London edition in November of that year (though dated 1874). The translator was "N. d'Anvers," pseudonym for Mrs. Arthur Bell. This American edition, using the same translation, was also published by November 22nd (possibly preceding the English edition); it too was post-dated 1874. It was bound in any of four colors of cloth (no priority), of which this terra cotta was one. This is a bright copy, in very good-plus condition (endpapers cracked as usual, a few small nicks in the spine ends, slight speckling of the cloth). Taves & Michaluk V010; Myers 27. MARITIME (CODE:9754), Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Front and back hinges slightly cracked however strong.

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