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The Mysterious Island (Part III): The Secret of the Island
Jules Verne; W.H.G. Kingston [trans.]
1879
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington : London
8" by 6"
viii [1], 2-299, [4]pp
SUMMARY
A lovely copy of the third edition of the third and final part of Jules Verne's adventure novel 'The Mysterious Island'.
Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The third edition of this work, which was first published in England in 1875.
Jules Verne's 'The Mysterious Island' was published in England in three volumes, entitled 'Dropped from the Clouds', 'The Abandoned', and 'The Secret of the Island'. This is the third edition of the final volume.
Verne's novel follows a group of Union soldiers - and two Confederates - as they escape America using a hot-air balloon, and end up on a strange island in the Pacific.
Illustrated with forty-nine plates, and a frontispiece. Collated, complete.
Translated from the original French by W.H.G. Kingston.
With three pages of advertisements to the rear, and further advertisements to rear free endpaper and pastedown.
A lovely example of this early edition of Verne's fantastical adventure novel.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Light bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge a touch strained at head of frontispiece. Blind stamp to head of front free endpaper. Internally, binding lightly strained, with two plates detached and loosely inserted, and pages 142-146 detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright and generally clean, but with some significant spotting to frontispiece and title page.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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