1876 Rare 2nd Edition - The Secret of the Island (The Mysterious Island) by Jules Verne. Illustrated.
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Author: Jules Verne.
Title: The Secret of the Island. (The Mysterious Island Part III). Translated from the French by W H G Kingston.
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. Second Edition (stated).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 6 ".
Pages : viii-299-iii pages
Binding: Attractive and very good illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, some foxing and staining, last endpaper worn - as shown)
Illustrations: Complete with all the full-page illustrations.
Estimate : (USD 250 - USD 500)
The book: Rare and attractive second edition of The Secret of the Island (the third part of Jules Verne trilogy of the Mysterious Island).
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).