1878 Scarce Second Edition - Jules Verne Child of the Cavern Or Strange Doings Underground

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Author : Jules Verne
Title :  THE CHILD OF THE CAVERN; or, Strange Doings Underground.
Publisher : London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. Second Edition (stated).
Language : Text in English
Size : 7.5 " X 6 "
Pages : xi-246 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good original illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean)  
Illustrations : Complete with all the 44 full page illustrations.

Estimate : (USD 500 - USD 800)

 The book : Scarce and attractive second edition of Les Indes noires (literally The Black Indies)  a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, serialized in Le Temps in March and April 1877 and published immediately afterward by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.The first UK edition was published in October 1877 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington as The Child of the Cavern, or Strange Doings Underground. Other English titles for the novel include Black Diamonds and The Underground City.

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).