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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Name: Five Weeks in a Balloon
Author: VERNE, Jules

Book Description

VERNE, Jules. Five Weeks in a Balloon; or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen. Translated by “William Lackland,” New York: Hurst & Co. 1869 [likely later] (185 x 120 mm) pp. 345. Frontispeice and three illustrations. Candidate for BINDING COPY. Though dated 1869, it is likely a later issue.

Dealer Notes

An early American version suffering from the typical Anglophone treatment of Verniana-- publishers believed that the English-reading audience would assume the literature was intended for children if the illustrations were left in. Wanting to appeal to a broader audience, the illustrations, which Verne intended to be read alongside the text, were often reduced or omitted entirely.

Author VERNE, Jules

Date 1869

Binding Publisher's cloth binding

Publisher New York: Hurst & Co.

Illustrator Édouard Riou

Condition Fair

Price: £100.00

Offered by Mobilis Books

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