1891 Rare Book - Jules Verne Child of the Cavern Or Strange Doings Underground. Author's Illustrated Edition.
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(Description)
Author: Jules Verne. W.H.G. Kingston, translator.
Title: THE CHILD OF THE CAVERN; or, Strange Doings Underground.
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, 1891. Author's Illustrated (Pears' Soap) edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 174 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, rare light foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with all the announced nice 10 full-page illustrations.
The book: Rare and attractive Author's Illustrated (Pears' Soap) 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).