Taves & Michaluk V013 Myers 42.įirst edition in English in book form of the first volume of Verne's Mysterious Island trilogy, preceding the Scribner Armstrong's first American edition. The three volumes housed together in a black cloth slipcase with silk ribbon. Some scattered light foxing, heaviest on the first and last leaves, minor soiling in the lower margin of pp.

Some very modest rubbing to corners and spine ends, front hinge of Dropped From the Clouds cracked but sound, spines of THe Abandoned and The Secret of the Island are sun faded, and minor blistering to the back cover cloth of THe Secret of the Island. Binder's ticket ('Bound by Burn & Co.') on rear pastedown of The Abandoned. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt and black, front cover lettered in blind against gilt and black, spine also lettered in black, back cover ruled in blind with central publisher's device in blind. In the original deluxe issue bindings (an extra cost option when new) of green (Dropped From the Clouds) and purple (The Abandoned and The Secret of The Island) sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Dropped From the Clouds with fifty wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) The Abandoned with fifty wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) The Secret of the Island with forty nine wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard). publisher's advertisements viii, 299,, iii (advertisements), pp. Together three octavo volumes (7 5/16 x 5 3/8 inches 186 x 137 mm).

First edition in English of L'Ile Mysterieuse (first published in French in 1874). London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle (1875). Dropped From the Clouds, The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island.

The mysterious island first edition