Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea; or, The Marvelous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil, His Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner [20,000]

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1933. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Aylward, W.J. [William James]. Edges rubbed, spine toned, ink gift note dated 1933 on front endpaper, small pencil doobles to top corner of some pages. 374 pp. Blue cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board. Two-color frontispiece and illustrations by 'R.R.' A reissue of Verne's immortal tale of underwater adventure, originally released in 1870, and first translated into English (poorly) in 1873. About the author: "Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1869 - 1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H.G. Wells. Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie...