1880 Scarce US Edition - JULES VERNE - A WINTER Amid The ICE, Dr. Ox's Experiment & Other Stories.
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Author: Jules Verne.
Title: A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories.
(Including: "Dr. Ox's Experiment", "Master Zacharius", "A Drama in the Air", "A Winter amid the Ice" & "Ascent of Mont Blanc").
Publisher: Philadelphia, John E. Potter and Company, 29, 31, 33 and 35 North Tenth St., no date (circa 1880).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5" X 5".
Pages: xi-332 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Very good and attractive full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some general toning to pages - as shown, rare light foxing - as shown, name of a previous owner on the second blank page - as shown).
Illustration: Complete with the nice 60 illustrations.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies in this Potter's Edition available for sale worldwide)
The book: Scarce and attractive American edition of A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories Including: "Dr. Ox's Experiment", "Master Zacharius", "A Drama in the Air", "A Winter amid the Ice" & "Ascent of Mont Blanc".
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).