TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS

Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co, 1873. First U.S. Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, xiii, [3], 303 pages, plus 110 illustrations. In Good minus condition. Bound in full green cloth with black and gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Boards are cocked, have moderate rubbing wear to extremities and surfaces, light plus bumping and fraying to spine head/tail and fore corners, minor soiling and stains, and small dents to the head edges and front fore edge. Textblock has an ink inscription from a previous owner on the second front free end page, a tear along the tail corner of page [3], a closed tear along the head edge of page 27, creasing along the head corner of page 91, illustration “[...] raid upon the cabbage-palms- page 115” is detached from the textblock and has small closed tears along the head/tail edges, page 115-116 and illustration “a slaughter of kangaroos- page 119” are partially detached from textblock, stains and foxing scattered throughout. Significant age toning, and light plus soiling to edges. LC consignment. Shelved front case. This edition was preceded in America by the more scare Osgood edition. It is speculated that most of the Osgood copies were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

The Osgood edition contains a number of translation errors. George M. Smith subsequently reset the text and published the first American edition. As is usual of a Smith first edition, this book has the correct translation of "Seas" instead of "Sea", and broken type for "The End" on page 303. 1398566. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.