Edouard riou illustrator (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. None. With one hundred engravings by Riou. Original grey and black designer cloth with botanical cover designs and decorated endpapers. An early American edition of this work by Verne. Very good, clean and unmarked. Extremely scarce: at time of listing no other 19th century copy was listed on ABE.…

[Science Fiction] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190. With an engraved frontispiece, and a selection of Riou's other illustrations in-text. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt. School prize plate to front pastedown, date 1899. Repairs to split hinges. Light toning and spotting throughout. Cloth quite heavily sunned and rubbed; head pulled and frayed. Good. The author's first full-length novel, originally published in an English translation in 1869. A fantasy adventure charting the travels of a balloon over the 'dark continent,' and a satire on English books of African exploration. …

[Survival Adventure] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 358. With engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Riou. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Residue from removed plate on front pastedown. Ink names to endpapers, contents generally clean. Binding shows some general handling, rubbing etc., inside paper joints cracked. A used yet serviceable copy. A routine trans-Atlantic crossing turns into a fight for survival on a raft in the open ocean as Murphy's Law takes over. First published in 1875. This edition also includes the short story 'Martin Paz' (1852), telling a Romeo and Juliet style romance set in Lima, Peru. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid, M.A. (1912-2009) writer, film-maker and cinema historian, and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne.…

[Science Fiction] SECOND US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 345 [5]. With 48 heliotype illustrations on 12 plates, reproducing the originals from the French edition by Riou, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's apricot cloth, titled and illustrated in black and gilt to spine and upper. Brown endpapers. Lightly browned with occasional spotting throughout. Many plates chipped and torn to margins. Final plate lacking tissue guard. Spine sunned and toned, with rubbing and water staining to cloth. Good. The author's first full-length novel, originally published in an English translation in 1869. A fantasy adventure charting the travels of a balloon over the 'dark continent,' and a satire on English books of African exploration.…

Hardcover. 4to., 467pp., 220pp.; VG-; 1/4 bound, red leather spine with gilt lettering, marbled boards, endpapers; rebound; mild shelfwear, primarily to board edges and corners; two volumes bound together, pagination not continuous; moderate foxing throughout; Voyage au centre de la Terre has a separate half-title and title page; Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras has the frontispiece; text in French; 1277116. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Condizione: Good. First American Edition. 21 x 13.5 cm. 620pp. Illustrated with 170 engravings. No ads. Rebound by MacDonald and Sons. When it was rebound it had title spine labels but those have fallen off and are lost. First American edition with 1873 on title and copyright page. Scuffing and wear to the binding, joints feel tender. Nice internally. Also known as "The Children of Captain Grant". First Magazine Jul/Aug 1996, pg 40 #5. Jules Verne, A Bibliography - Meyers #34. Rebound into three quarters leather with marble boards. Édouard Riou (illustrator) (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. First Edition. 19 x 12.5 cm. viii 384pp. Illustrated with 52 engravings by Riou Bound by MacDonald & Sons. First American edition with no address given under the publisher's imprints and no advertisements. Despite the title page date of 1874 this was actually published the previous year and precedes the deluxe edition. Marble endpapers. Scuffing and discoloration to the covers and edges. Stain to the edges of the front endpaper. Some scattered foxing. Front hinge feels a bit tending. One corner is off the plate opposite page 92, which does not reach the illustration itself. Paper feels a bit brittle. A cornerstone of science-fiction and a rare edition. References: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) - II-11482. Jules Verne, A Bibliography, Myers #35. First Magazine Jul/Aug, 1996, #2. Rebound into three quarters leather with marble boards and black spine labels. Édouard Riou (illustrator) (illustratore).…

First Edition. [Adventure novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 440; [2], blank. With two hundred and fifty illustrations by Riou. Publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth hardcovers, coated brown endpapers. Contents fine, page edges a little toned, cloth a trifle shelfworn. A lovely fine, bright copy. Verne's classic polar adventure, this volume comprises the complete text, previously published as part one, "The English at the North Pole" and part two "The Desert of Ice".…

Condizione: Very Good+. First British Edition. First British edition and first English translation of one of Jules Verne's most famous novels. viii, 384, [8] pp. with eight advertising pages at rear, illustrated with 52 wood engravings by Riou. Bound in publisher's cobalt blue cloth with pictorial stamping in black and gilt, peach endpapers. Very Good+ with heavily sunned and rubbed spine with restoration at head and tail, light soiling and several small ink stains to cloth. Light foxing to textblock edges and first and last few pages, several tiny inkstains to fore edge of textblock. Hinges repaired, small abrasion and bookseller blindstamp to front endsheet, ink inscriptions dated 1872 and 1930 to front free endpaper verso. Taves & Michaluk V002. The first English-language edition of the science fiction classic. Professor Lidenbrock, infamously renamed "Hardwigg" by an anoymous translator who took great liberties with the text, discovers a runic manuscript that reveals a volcanic entrance into the earth's core. He grabs his nephew and an Icelander named Hans and carries them off into the bowels of the earth, where they discover a lost world of living dinosaurs before making the perilous journey back to the surface. The book was the delight of late Victorian boyhood - this copy was presented to its first owner "with his Mother's love" - and has never been out of print since.…