1873 1st Ed! Jules VERNE Twenty Thousand Leagues RARE Start Price USD 3,000.00 Current Price USD 3,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 16, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 Location Gerry, New York See more about '1873 1st Ed! Jules VERNE Twenty Thousand Leagues RARE' Description Highly sought after volume! In much better condition than usually found! First Edition, Second Issue. Here is a similar copy for sale by another reputable US bookshop... US$ 6050.00 [Convert Currency] Quantity: 1 Shipping within U.S.A.:US$ 7.50 [Rates & Speeds]   Book Description: Boston Geo. M. Smith & Co. 1873, 1873. First American edition, Smith imprint, sold only by subscription. Profusely illustrated throughout. Thick 8vo, publisher's original forest green cloth, highly decorated with pictorial embellishments and printing in black and gilt on the covers and spine. xiii, 303. A very handsome, very bright copy in unusually nice condition. Unrestored and without sophistication of any sort, highly unusual thus. A RARE FIRST EDITION, COMPLETELY UNRESTORED AND UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED of perhaps the most famous of all Jules Verne novels. The incredible story of Captain Nemo and his incredible adventures in one of the earliest submarines. Our modest reserve is only a small fraction.... TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES Under The Seas; Or, The Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land, A Canadian Harpooner.   Translated From The French of JULES VERNE.   One Hundred and Ten Illustrations. (From The Edition of James R. Osgood & Co.)   SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION.     Publisher:Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co. 1873. First Edition, Second Issue. *Published with the Geo. Smith & Co. imprint, title page dated 1873, printed lacking The End type on pg 303. The second (preferred) Smith issue - according to Myers, copies with 'THE END' on final page of text have damaged type. Number of Volumes: 1 volume complete. Binding: Original cloth binding, in much better (Very Good) condition than usually found! Front board illustrated in gilt, with an image of Captain Nemo using a sextant. Spine also decorated in gilt. There is light to moderate shelf wear to the extremities~ very tiny chips to the cloth at the crown and bottom of the spine, what appears to be a small, closed & repaired tear to the cloth at top of front hinge. Some signatures shaken but still firmly attached.  Interior rear paper gutter barely started~ cloth not at all.  Front hinge is tight and intact.  2 pages with faint dog-eared corner, faint moisture stain at inner bottom of pages 269-303, barely touching the text on a few pages. Text is much brighter and cleaner than usually found as well. Volume Size: Volume measures 8 1/4 inches tall, and 6 inches wide! TEG (top edges of pages gilded): No Foxing~ Is Text Clean?:Text is generally clean and quite white~ nearly WITHOUT Foxing! Light foxing to frontis tissue guard, rear endpapers, & last couple of pages of text ONLY. Endpapers:Non-decorative. WITHOUT any previous owner's Ex Libris plates and/or signatures! Number of Pages in Volume, or Average Page Count Per Volume: Volume is complete in 303. Additional Notes:Rare First Edition in better condition than usually found! Highly sought after and collected classic literary work by Verne! Modest reserve, so don't miss this opportunity! An excellent addition to any library, and/or a memorable gift! PAYMENT: Payment may be made via paypal, personal check, cashier's check, and money order. Payment must be received within 7 days of auction close, and we would appreciate some sort of contact within 3 days. Non-Paying Bidder Warnings as well as Fraud Complaints will be filed if the situation warrents these actions. Merchandise paid by personal check may be held for (10) business days until such funds clear. 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