Science Fiction Jules Verne From The Earth To The Moon 1874 1st US VG

First edition with 1874 on title page. First printing with the advertisement on the verso of the title with one title; "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, $2.00." Publisher: New York Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1874. Octavio 5.5" x 8" [ii Blank] [viii] 1-323 pp. [iii Blank]. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to the front cover and spine. Includes a frontispiece illustrated by Émile-Antoine Bayard, de Montaut and Alphonsede Neuville. Front cover illustrated with a spaceship traveling to the moon. Spine illustrated with a man in his study. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King. Eighty full page illustrations (all present). Brown pastedowns and endpapers.

Book Condition: Very Good Spine edges are frayed. Cover edges frayed. Clean text without foxing. Binding is tight. Brown rear endpaper stuck to blank rear page. Rear cover has foxing spot. Bookseller label on front pastedown. FEP has foxing spots. List of illustrations has tears.

From the Earth to the Moon is a science fiction novel. It follows the members of the Baltimore Gun Club as they attempt to launch a manned expedition to the moon by way of a giant cannon.