Lot 12 — FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, 1874, Jules Verne, Scribner, 1st US ed., illustrated
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Verne, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. Octavo. Publisher's original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black to spine and front board. Illustrated with eighty full-page plates. Facing ad leaf for A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Rebacked with new end papers. Spine cloth chipped at head and tail with vertical splitting along outer joints. Cloth rubbed and edge-worn. Hinges starting; tissue guard torn. Page 232 plate with closed margin tear extending into border. Minor interior spotting.