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VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York & London: Scribner, Welford & Company/Griffith & Farran, 1872. image 1
VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York & London: Scribner, Welford & Company/Griffith & Farran, 1872. image 2
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VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York & London: Scribner, Welford & Company/Griffith & Farran, 1872.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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VERNE, JULES. 1828-1905.

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York & London: Scribner, Welford & Company/Griffith & Farran, 1872.
8vo. Frontispiece, title page vignette, and 50 plates by Edouard Riou. 8 pp Griffith & Farran catalog at end. Publisher's pictorial orange cloth decorated in gold and black. Rebacked, retaining original spine and endpapers, minor staining.

FIRST EDITION, RARE AMERICAN ISSUE, with Griffith and Farran binding and sheets, and Scribner and Welford cancel title leaf. Rare issue, with perhaps no more than 10 or 12 produced in this form, and no other example known to have appeared at auction. Charles Welford was Scribner's London partner, and purchased small quantities of British publications for export to America. The American issue followed closely on the heels of the British publication, being advertised for Christmas by Scribner & Welford in December 1871. Taves & Michaluk V002 for the British edition, this issue unrecorded.

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