mistress branican, Edition originale (23 résultats)

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good +. 1st Thus. G+, Edgewear, creases, small ink price on front cover, binding stretched at copyright page, browning. Adventure, set in the deserts of South & Western Australia. Cover by Brian Sadgrove. Photo on request.

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. A scarce illustrated first edition of Mistress Branican. Original green illustrated boards with gilt lettering. Slight bowing of front boards. Minimal wear considering the age. Bright gilt edges of pages. Front hinge lightly split. Clean contents and images including frontis tissue guard. Overall in exceptional condition and a rare find. 8vo 360pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st American. First American Edition in green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. Frontispiece and numerous additional full page plates by L. Benett. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Taves & Michaluk V038; Myers 41. New York: Cassell Publishing Company (n.d. 1891), 377 pages. A Very Good copy; Some darkening and a few small wrinkles in cloth, repaired tear in cloth along front hinge, soft spine ends. Bookseller pencils and very modest scattered foxing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First British Edition in blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, brown, and green and titled in gilt, all edge gilt, patterned endpapers. Tissue paper guarded frontispiece, title page vignette, and numerous additional full page plates. Taves & Michaluk V038; Myers 41. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company (1892), 360 pages. A Very Good copy; Modest fading to spine, pushed spine ends, modest wear. Clean interior with scattered foxing to prelims.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With fading at the spine, otherwise a good tight large octavo first edition copy in decorative brown cloth binding, 377 pages. With the Sondley Reference Library bookplate and their call number on the spine. With Sondley's signature, address and Sept. 10, 1920 date. Photos on request.

Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-iv [1] 2-377 [378: blank], illustrations by Leon Benett, publisher's pictorial gray cloth stamped in brown, black and gold. Later edition. Translation of MISTRESS BRANICAN (1891). Published in New York by Cassell in November, the same year the novel was published in French by Hetzel. The first British edition was published by Sampson Low in November 1892. Taves and Michaluk V038. Pulp paper tanned, else a nearly fine copy. (#173594).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Benett (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First Edition - Au Portrait Imprime edition. Red cloth, double Grand in-8. In french, all edges gilt, grey end pages, 83 illustrations by Benett, 12 color illustrations and 2 color maps. Back cover Lenegre type {e}. 8-page catalog {FX-6801} at rear indicating a date of 1891. Jauzac pg. 264. Paris: Collection Hetzel (n.d. 1891), 440 pages. Good copy with sun faded spine, fraying at spine ends and tips, edge wear, curled tips, small white stain on back cover. Some repair work to rear gutter and across spine, re-backed spine with replaced end pages I have previously listed complete sets of UK and US Verne first editions. Now I am starting on a collection of 400 1st editions in French. This is an ongoing project, so please contact me for any you do not see listed yet. This has already resulted in sales to Italy, Switzerland, Hong Kong and the US.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Edition Originale. First Edition, first printings. The two volumes [I believe originally the paperback versions] have been bound together into this one book. Contemporary half blue leather and blue marbled paper, smooth spine lettered and ruled in gilt, and marbled end pages. No illustrations, volumes Imprimeurs: Gauthier Villars. Della Riva 52B1, 52B2. Bottin Page 539. Paris: Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation; J. Hetzel (n.d. 1891), 329 and 341 pages. Very Good. Boards have quite a bit of wear and rubbing. Cracked hinge, bookplate on front paste down. Nice interior pages.

In-8° grande (278x180mm), pp. (4), 440, (2), bella legatura del tempo m. pelle blu con titolo in oro su dorso a nervetti decorati in oro. Piatti in marmorizzatura caillouté policroma. Sguardie marmorizzate. 83 xilografie in b.n. di Léon Benett n.t. e f.t. (una all'antiporta) e 12 grandi incisioni in chromotypographie f.t. dello stesso Benett; inoltre, 2 carte geografiche a piena pag. in cromolitografia. Ottimo esemplare. Prima tiratura della prima edizione in-8° grande, contemporanea alla prima edizione assoluta, in-18° (preceduta da una preoriginale sul Magasin d'éducation et de récréation). Il romanzo è ambientato quasi per intero in Australia (ma alcuni capitoli hanno come sfondo anche Timor e la Malesia). Gondolo Della Riva, Bibliographie analytique de toutes les oeuvres de Jules Verne, I, pp. 106-107, n. 52, pp. 106-107: Premier tirage de la première édition gr. in-8°. Cfr. Mario Turiello. La Femme dans les Voyages Extraordinaires. Mistress Branican in Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne. Ancienne série. N° 11-13, 1938, pp. 147-160; Jean-Paul Faivre, Les Voyages Extraordinaires de Jules Verne en Australie. Mistress Branican. in Australian Journal of French Studies, Victoria, vol. VI, n. 1, 1969.

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), olive green pictorial cloth, gilt. 377 pp., engraved plates. Early ownership inscription in ink on ffep. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, edges worn, foot of spine fraying, title-page a bit soiled, text toned, one slightly sprung gathering, slight damp-stains at fore-edge. First edition, first state of the large octavo American edition. REFERENCES: Taves & Michaluk V038; Myers 41.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First edition. First of the large octavo American edition. Illustrated by L. Benett. Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Spine slightly dulled. Mustard brown cloth, gold and black stamped lettering and design on spine and cover. spine slightly darkened, cover bright. from the private collection of B. Wallace, with small bookplate and stamp front end paper a remarkable and well-preserved copy. a bargain at this price.

Couverture rigide. - Hetzel, Paris 1891, Grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 440pp., relié. - Edition de second tirage de la première illustrée ornée de 83 dessins de Benett, de 12 hors-texte en couleurs ainsi que de 2 cartes en couleurs. Catalogue FX in fine. Cartonnage d'éditeur dit "Au portrait imprimé", dont il s'agit de la première apparition. En bas de la plaque supérieure "Collection hetzel" est sur un fond noir, les exemplaires avec un fond rouge constituant la toute première édition illustrée alors qu'il s'agit ici de la version définitive du cartonnage, parue cependant au cours de la même année. Second plat de type Lenègre e, avec le macaron sur fond noir. Belle première plaque, aux beaux ors rouges. Dos éclairci, coiffes affaissées, coins très légèrement cornés, rousseurs éparses. Roman d'aventure se déroulant principalement en Australie et dont l'héroïne est une femme, à la recherche de son mari disparu. Le titre original du roman devait être Lady Franklin, car Jules Verne a voulu écrire un hommage à toutes les femmes en général et à la femme de sir John Franklin en particulier, qui consacra sa vie à retrouver son mari disparu sur le chemin de la conquête du Pôle Nord et y consacra aussi toute sa fortune, malheureusement en vain. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] 440pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. iv, 377 p., interspersed with plates. 22 cm. Frontispiece and 81 other full page plates, as well as a smaller vignette on p. iv. Blue cloth with black and gold impresing. Front features Mrs. Branican en route to the ship Dolly's Hope while spine shows the bell of the shipwrecked Franklin. Mylar wrap (removed for photo). Corners and spine ends worn. Light shelf wear on lower edges. Some light soiling. A couple of signatures jutting out slightly. Inscriptions on front free endpaper. Paper browning. Small mark rear of frontispiece. Pages neat and clean. Fairly scarce Verne adventure novel with a female protagonist. When her husband John goes to sea and she loses her only child, Wat, San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers, she discovers her husband's ship was lost at sea and she is heir to a substantial fortune. Refusing to believe her husband is dead, Dolly uses her extensive resources to discover the whereabouts of her husband's ship, the Franklin. Her search leads her to Australia where her adventures continue into the interior at Alice Springs. Myers 41. Taves and Michaluk V038. First American Edition and first in English.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Mistress Branican by Jules Verne translated from the French by A. Estoclet illustrated by L. Benett Cassell Publishing Company New York 1891 Free Shipping Worldwide Very scarce Jules Verne adventure novel; 1st American Edition and first edition in English; Cassell Publishing Company, New York; 1891; Translated from the French by A. Estoclet; Illustrated by L. Benett; Decorative green cloth hardboards; Beautiful gold-gilt ornamented illustration on front cover & spine; Fabulous full-page engraved B&W illustrations; Full-page frontispiece accompaniment to title-page; book measurements: 14.5 cm X 21 cm total length; iv, 377 pages Condition: very good condition; binding secure, covers & spine remain in excellent condition, gilt of spine titling only somewhat faded, minimal wear at extremities with corners slightly worn & bumped; all pages are intact, text clean with slight age discoloration and the mild browning of an antique 125 year old patina; no torn pages, no writing in the book. Plot Synopsis: (courtesy of D. Kytasaari) After her husband John has gone to sea and she loses her only child, Wat, San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers, 4 years later, she discovers that her husband's ship was lost at sea. As heir to a substantial fortune during her madness, Dolly uses these resources to finance the discovery of the whereabouts of her husband's ship, the Franklin because she doesn't believe he is dead. Years later a clue to the fate of the Franklin is discovered in Australia, Dolly quickly goes to there to discover that her husband may still be alive in a remote part of northwestern Australia. book dimensions: 8.5 in X 6 in total length; 377 pages.

Original Cloth. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A UK first edition, first impression. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. All edges gilt. No wrapper. New endpapers. The book is sound and tight. The front and back boards are generally clean, showing gentle bumping to all edges. All the corners being are very gently rubbed. The lettering and design on the front board is sound. The spine is lightly toned. Some of the spine lettering is dulled. The spine is bruised at the top and bottom. The pages are clean. The original endpapers have been replaced. The closed page edges are sound. The binding is tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A decent copy of an uncommon title. Paypal accepted.

Couverture rigide. - Hetzel, Paris 1891, Grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 440pp., relié. - Edition de second tirage de la première illustrée. 83 dessins de Benett, 12 hors-texte en couleurs, 2 cartes en coleurs. Catalogue FX in fine. Cartonnage d'éditeur dit "Au portrait imprimé", dont il s'agit de la première apparition. En bas de la plaque supérieure "Collection hetzel" est sur un fond noir, les exemplaires avec un fond rouge constituent la toute première édition illustrée alors qu'il s'agit ici de la version définitive du cartonnage, parue cependant au cours de la même année. Second plat de type Lenègre e, avec le macaron sur fond noir. Belle première plaque, aux beaux ors rouges. Dos insolé, aux couleurs fanées. Coiffes frottées et affaissées. Second plat bien avec une zone de grattements et une petite tache noire. Un coin légèrement replié, les autres bien pointus et droits. Quelques rousseurs éparses dans un ensemble plutôt frais. Roman d'aventure se déroulant principalement en Australie et dont l'héroïne est une femme, à la recherche de son mari disparu. Le titre original du roman devait être Lady Franklin, car Jules Verne a voulu écrire un hommage à toutes les femmes en général et à la femme de sir John Franklin en particulier, qui consacra sa vie à retrouver son mari disparu sur le chemin de la conquête du Pôle Nord et y consacra aussi toute sa fortune, malheureusement en vain. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND] 440pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful Very Fine copy in Light Green Boards. First Edition (1891). Very Rare in This Condition.Beautiful Fresh Tight Copy. Scarce Verne Title.

Jules Verne. A[lphonse] Estoclet, translator. L[éon] Benett, illustrator. Mistress Branican. New York: Cassell Publishing, 1891. First American edition and first edition in English. Octavo. 377pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and eighty-one plates by Benett. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, stamped in black and gilt to spine and front cover. . Slight spine lean; extremities gently rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn; minor uniform toning throughout. Very good.

Etat : Fair. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. 1st American edition and 1st English language edition. 8vo. iv,377pp. Illus. by L. Benett. Fair book. Front free endpage removed, else Good. Owner's name on flyleaf. (Australia, widows, novels) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, n.d. [1891]. Original mint green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First American Edition (and first edition in English) of this tale involving shipwreck off the coast of Aboriginal Australia. After her husband John has gone to sea and she loses her only child, San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers four years later, she discovers that her husband's ship was lost at sea. As heir to a substantial fortune during her madness, Dolly uses these resources to finance the discovery of the whereabouts of her husband's ship the Franklin, because she doesn't believe he is dead. Years later a clue to the fate of the Franklin is discovered in Australia; Dolly quickly goes there to discover that her husband may still be alive in a remote part of northwestern Australia. [Kytasaari] This undated Cassell edition was published in November 1891 -- the first Verne book to be published in America after the July 1, 1891 effective date of the International Copyright Act; Sampson Low's London edition was published a year later, in November 1892. This copy is in mint green cloth; we have also had ochre and aqua cloth (no priority). This is a remarkably clean copy, in near-fine condition (one corner bumped, a short nick in the spine head); the front endpaper bears a 1932 signature, and the rear endpaper bears numerous penciled notes dated 1960. Taves & Michaluk V038; Myers 41.