1891 Rare Early Edition - JULES VERNE The Flight to France or The Memoirs of a Dragoon

 

Author : Jules Verne
Title : The Flight to France or The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tales of the Day of Dumouriez.
Publisher : London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891. "New and Cheaper Edition."
Language : Text in English
Size : 7.5 " X 6 " 
Pages : viii-231-32 pages.
Binding : Very good  and very attractive full Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining). 
Illustration : Profusely and nicely illustrated with full page illustrations.

Estimate: (USD 175 - USD 300)

The book : Rare and attractive early edition of The Flight to France (French: Le Chemin de France, 1887) an adventure novel written by Jules Verne about a fictional French Army Captain Natalis Delpierre, with a setting in the year 1792 just before the French Revolutionary Wars. Several English language editions were published with the subtitle, The Flight to France; or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Day of Dumouriez.

 The author: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).